Creativity

"In war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."

"The first thing I look for in a script is a good story and then I look to see who's involved in it."

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide."

"It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality."

"The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation."

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."

"Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow."

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."

"Grammar is a piano I play by ear."

"We are all but a mass of diverse qualities, good and bad, the only creative mind is the mind of the whole."

"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."

"You can make anything by writing."

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

"Writing is a marvelous adventure."

"Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple."

"Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it... think what's the most amazing way to do it."

"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

"Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."