Jimmy Webb Quotes

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I love to be creative.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

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.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

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

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

The more you reason the less you create.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

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.

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.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.