Quotes About Creativity

Call her Betty Fucking Crocker, because the cake was so going to be worth the bake.

We'll all have an ice-cream cake to celebrate! Except for we don't have a freezer!

Nix and Emma: 'Looks like you just found a new talent.' 'Great. Why couldn't I be good at underwater origami or something?

You do not come to the thee-ator and it will wither your soul. (Madam Leadora Seamstress for the Royal Magnificent Theater)

If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

The brain could go just about anywhere with anything.

Et maleri er et dikt uten ord

Each novel is a message in a bottle cast into the great ocean of literature from somewhere else.

If everyone else is thinking right and left, you fucking well better be thinking up and down.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest thought.

Mr. Smith was an art-ist, as well as an in-vent-or, and he paint-ed a pic-ture of a riv-er which was so nat-ur-al that, as he was reach-ing a-cross it to paint some flow-ers on the op-po-site bank, he fell in-to the wa-ter and was drowned.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ruggedo melted Tik-Tok in one of his furnaces and made copper pennies of him. In that case, I would still keep going, remarked Tik-Tok, calmly. Pennies do, said Betsy regretfully.

fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet

Pray what can a civilized boy do now When all the Dragons are dead?

I composed it myself! said the Fiddler Crab. But it's highly classical, I admit. All really great music is an acquired taste.

With the point of his knife he made two round eyes, a three-cornered nose, and a mouth shaped like a new moon.

The wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older and made me amazing

I'd like to add some beauty to life . . . I'd love for people to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet, scoffed Marilla. You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that should be put to your lessons. Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

But of course I'd rather be Anne of Green Gables sewing patchwork than Anne of any other place with nothing to do but play.

Oh, what I know about myself isn't really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you'll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you'll think it ever so much more interesting.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.