Edmund Wilson Quotes

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

I believe in creative work.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can give yourself the permission to try and see things differently or create something original, even though you probably won't make anything original for a really long time.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Sing songs that none have sung

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.