Quotes About Creativity

first bars of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.

A blank red slate. Anything was possible, anything could happen

Well," Amelia said, "basically my polar bears have taken over my airship.

Cinnamon, raw sienna, Persian orange, sunburn, camel, rust brown, Sahara, chrome orange…they began to laugh. Nothing was quite right. "We'll call it Martian orange," Maya decided.

Art should be used to change things.

Genius is not a matter of intelligence, but of spirit; and we cannot speak accurately of the spirit in any language but music.

first a wind ensemble playing a transcription of the Appassionata piano sonata; then Beethoven's opus 134, which was his own transcription for two pianos of his Grosse Fugue for string quartet, opus 133. Lastly a string quartet was to play a transcription of their own for the Hammerklavier sonata.

I can paint that fucking cave.

I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism.

Mozart's pet starling once revised a phrase he wrote. The bird sang it after he played it on the piano, but changed all the sharps to flats. Mozart described it happening in the margin of the score. 'That was beautiful!' he wrote. When the bird died, he sang at its funeral, and read a poem to it.

When you had the world and your body as canvases, why deal in squares of wallpaper?

we're not here to, you know, reproduce Canada, for God's sake!

People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.

The best Plan B will emerge from the multitudes.

Art is not truth. Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. said Picasso

Luông mang bên mình khát khao khám phá, tìm hi?u, th? hi?n trong t?ng công vi?c

Thoughts, ideas, and suggestions.

Do it for joy and you can do it forever

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.

Should poets bicycle-pump the human heart Or squash it flat? - a Bookshop Idyll

No indeed, poems were not made out of intentions.

John D. MacDonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?

But to me, writing books is a way to earn a living in my pajamas.

In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which is ambiguity and multi-valence.