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Quotes About Creativity

The hallway's walls are covered now with posters, of dinosaurs, cartoon characters, the Buddhas of Bamiyan, and displays of artwork by the orphans. Many of the drawings depict tanks running over huts, men brandishing AK-47s, refugee camp tents, scenes of jihad.
~ Khaled Hosseini
La sola fuga possibile era allentare le redini della fantasia.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Tr? con Ä'âu ph?i nh?ng quy?n t?p tô màu. Anh không th? bôi ??y nó b?ng nh?ng màu anh ưa thích
~ Khaled Hosseini
children s are not the coloring books where you can fill your favorite colors
~ Khaled Hosseini
Rahim Kan se echó a reír. —Los niños no son cuadernos para colorear. No los puedes pintar con tus colores favoritos.
~ Khaled Hosseini
All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.
~ Kim Addonizio
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.
~ Kim Addonizio
Imagine a sentence as a hall with a series of doors. Each door is a possible way to use what you've already written to generate new material.
~ Kim Addonizio
Robert Frost said, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
~ Kim Addonizio
This is your genius: your own profound desire to write. Your love of words and language, your attempt to get to what poet Donald Hall called "the unsayable said." If
~ Kim Addonizio
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you—whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others—not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.
~ Kim Addonizio
There's a great feeling of relief and catharsis when you manage to get something that's been buried or hidden out onto the page. And such a process, whether or not it eventually results in a poem, helps to integrate that part of the self.
~ Kim Addonizio
Rows and rows of books lined the shelves...full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers...
~ Kim Edwards
Writing is always a process of discovery - I never know the end,or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There is a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.
~ Kim Edwards
Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like.
~ Kim Harrison
Have you been sniffing fairy farts?
~ Kim Harrison
Emojin stopped, turned, and nailed him with her glare. "Because she's making this one piece all she'll ever need to show the world who she is instead of coloring her body with random images and needing thirty expressions to show her soul.
~ Kim Harrison
The more we are removed from nature, the more we are denied our birthright to play in forests, climb mountains, follow streams, and fall in love with meadows, to become creative, self-actualized, deeply intuitive.
~ Kim Heacox
Writing is fundamentally an act of insurrection.
~ Kim Jocelyn Dickson
Man is a social being with independence, creativity and consciousness.
~ Kim Jong Il
No one cares about books, that's why you can write anything you want in them.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I don't know how I'll be as a shaman. I'll find out when I try it. You both know me. You've known me since before we even had names. I can't travel in my dreams, or above the sky. There aren't any spirits that talk to me or through me. I can't sing the songs. I can't help people who are sick. But I'll tell you this, and he raised his right forefinger before them and seized them with his eyes: —I can paint that fucking cave.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Now he stood in the farthest end of the cave, in front of the great lion chase he had watched Thorn paint so long ago. He saw again: it was by far the greatest painting in the the cave, maybe the world. Maybe it would always be the greatest painting.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Sure, we could have big trucks too. We could have a monster truck pull right on the White House lawn." "Monster truck." Joe smiled at the phrase.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson