"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to ...
We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
More Ray Bradbury quotes
"Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.
"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
"They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an ...
"Creativity is a continual surprise.
"Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great reli...
"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will e...
"Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man ...
"Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity.
"They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Dar...
"...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more...
"So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
"Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it.
"That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
"We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth