Quotes About Creativity

It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of human creativity. As David Crystal has expressed it: 'it..is the latest manifestation of the human ability to be linguistically creative... In texting, we are seeing, in a small way, language in evolution...

The avant-garde no longer simply attempts, as it always must, to carry out transformations within an inherited medium; it claims it is creating a medium of its own, sometimes retaining the old name of theatre, sometimes preferring others: spectacle, show, performance.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Inspiration is a trick that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

Art is a fruit that grows in man.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born, I have confidence in it (automatic painting). I do not think about it. The forms arrive pleasant, or strange, hostile, inexplicable, mute, or drowsy. They are born from themselves. It seems to me as if all I do is move my hands.

We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit and does not itself reproduce. We want to produce directly and without meditation. As there is not the least trace of abstraction in this art, we will call it concrete art.

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

We painted embroidered and made collages. All these works were drawn from the simplest forms and were probably the first examples of concrete art. These works are realities pure and independent with no meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected all mimesis and description, giving free reign to the elementary and spontaneous.

Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature.

Imagination can be your best friend, you know.

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.

All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like — then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.