Quotes About Creativity

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Let your heart dance with pen and paper. Now fill the paper with dancing letters.

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry. So be passionate and write a great story.

Not the builder, but the writer, creates the road to the future.

Our knowledge is limited, but the power of imagination is unlimited.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

Thoughts have no barrier.

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts; it will be beautiful.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

It is significant to realize that the most creative environments in our society are not the ever-changing ones. The artist's studio, the researcher's laboratory, the scholar's library are each deliberately kept simple so as to support the complexities of the work-in-progress. They are deliberately kept predictable so the unpredictable can happen.

Here's what the moment of inspiration did. It assembled these cultural meanings in this particular package for this particular group at this particular cultural moment.

He designed the iconic Bob Dylan poster and the I Love New York icon. Milton Glaser

He has suggested that we eliminate the word art and replace it with work.

You have to not care whether they approve of your or not," she said when I called. "We do what we do to express ourselves, not to coincide with what others like. You're lucky if they like anything you do.

Your like Martha Stewart on crack," my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood ' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

This etymology puts me in mind of Winnicott's notion of potential space–that intermediate area between the subjective and objective in which creativity and play occur. Psychotherapy is akin to play, according to Winnicott. Therapy takes place neither inside the mind of the patient nor inside that of the therapist, but in some middle area, in the potential space between them.

When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.

When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as a writer - and there aren't many, in face I can't think of any other - is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you can make it better again. And you may not be able to make it good, but at least it's not going to be what you're looking at now.