Giuseppe Verdi Quotes

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I am not really an inventor. I just steal my ideas from 8-year olds.

You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world - whatever that means.

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.