Quotes about Creativity

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

When enough fiction is written and enough scientific hypotheses are proposed, sooner or later there will be accidental concordances.

I know of no significant advance in science that did not require major inputs from both cerebral hemispheres. This is not true for art, where apparently there are no experiments by which capable, dedicated and unbiased observers can determine to their mutual satisfaction which works are great.

As the pioneering physicist Benjamin Franklin put it, "In going on with these experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves obliged to destroy?

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time — proof that humans can work magic.

The people who wrote down the Bible and the people who wrote down the Mahayana sutras were artists. They used images to express their insights.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

Seriously, my heart is to just go forward as far as I can, making music that I love and seeing where the journey takes me.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of selecting passages from the best writers in the world.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.