Harry Mathews Quotes

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

You can't rush inspiration.

I like trying to be creative.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.