Quotes About Creativity

intrinsically vulgar, depraved, or morbid. That's as may be. "Using" is inferior to "reception" because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it.7

Everybody who writes about Blake begins by saying that he was a visionary. It is a vague term. All artists, even the most realistic, start with some kind of vision - that is what leads them to select what they need from the infinite diversity of appearances.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

Remember - no limitation can be placed on you by any one but yourself. With your imagination you have a unique ability to draw on an infinite source of supply. There is power in thought.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man