Patti Smith Quotes

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

You have to create something from nothing.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.

I still don't know how to jump-start a car, even though it's been told to me a million times. But I do love thinking about how creativity works.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar.

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

Politics should seize the imagination.

Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

Four inch nails is more like it!

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.