Quotes About Creativity

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

The power of imagination is infinite.

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.