Quotes About Creativity

Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Creativity leads others to where I lead you, to an unseen beauty, so ineffable its very beauty destroys itself...

There is beauty in thinking independently.

To find beauty, rise above conformity and find opportunities.

Find beauty in the madness.

We are artists. When we can't find the beauty, we create it.

Art is an expression of inner beauty.

How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?

Beauty is the expression of passion of life.

There is a chest inside my heart, where a magical world is hidden. With my novels, I hand to you the key to that world.

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.

Write what speaks to your soul.

Writing is like breathing for my soul.

If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

The point of art is to inspire you to create your own.

Art is literacy of the heart.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

Make your life a work of art and you will never die.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.