Terence McKenna Quotes

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

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

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

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

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I'm interested in creating new work.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.