Arthur Miller Quotes

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.