creativity Quotes

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.