Lucille Clifton Quotes

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

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

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

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

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

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

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

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

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

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

I like to create.