creativity quotes

   Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

- Al Hirschfeld
Of Edward Lear and James Thurber. Quoted in Neil  A Grauer Remember Laughter (1994).

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

- Erica ne  e Mann Jong
  'The  Artist  as Housewife', in The First Ms. Reader.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five.

- Arthur Koestler
  The Act of Creation.

Artistic temperament†sometimes seems a battleground for a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

- Madeleine married name Mrs Hugh Franklin L'Engle
  A Severed Wasp.

Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

- Henry Roth
  'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

- George Steiner
  Real Presences.