Quotes About Creativity

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Artists are men who want to become inhuman.

The mind is an activity, not a repository.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.

Surrealism, although the courses of literature paradoxically make room for it today, is not a discipline that can be taught.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take things to.

The most fantastic thing you could film is people reading. I don't see why no one's done it... The movie you'd make would be a lot more interesting than most of them.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.

Il est facile de choisir les rideaux les plus jolis, les meubles les plus parfaits, de faire les seuls mouvements d'appareil possibles, si l'on sait d'avance que J'on est doué pour ça. De la part d'un artiste, trop bien se connaître, c'est un peu céder à la facilité. Ce qui est difficile, au contraire, c'est d'avancer en terre inconnue, de reconnaître le danger, de prendre des risques, d'avoir peur.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

C'est pour l'amour de la liberté qu'il devient « nègre » et se réduit en esclavage : pendant des années, son génie et son nom resteront invisibles dans les ténèbres de la sous-littérature

There ran in me sweet lines of poetry

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

I start a picture and I finish it.

And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye. Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with Hound. Hound was on his back, trying to wiggle out of the black towel Batty had tied around his neck. Batty was leaping over Hound's water bowl, shrieking, 'Blood, blood!' 'She looks all right,' he said.

I did know a girl in middle school who made hand puppets from her boyfriends' socks," said Aunt Claire. "I don't know if she talked to the puppets, but she did make the puppets talk to her.

Love was love, but art was art and though he mixed the two a little, he never confused them.