Quotes About Creativity

When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you get to be a writer, and I don't? I thought WRITER was written on their foreheads and they saw it when they looked in the mirror, and I sure didn't see it when I looked in the mirror. I always thought of writing as holy. I still do.

D)ying is hard, but living is harder still. —Vincent van Gogh

How much there is in art that is beautiful, if only one can remember what one has seen, one is never empty or truly lonely, and never alone. -Vincent Van Gogh

Colour expresses something in itself. -Vincent Van Gogh

How much there is in art that is beautiful, if only one can remember what one has seen, one is never empty or truly lonely, and never alone.

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

we do not have to conform to the way our life has been written for us, especially by those who are less imaginative than ourselves.

It's hard to write and be open and let things in when life is tough, but to keep everything out means there's nothing to work with.

How do we set about not imagining something?

Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85)

To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life. But I had nowhere to write.

A female writer cannot afford to feel her life too clearly. If she does, she will write in a rage when she should write calmly.

I knew I wanted to be a writer more than anything else in the world, but I was overwhelmed by everything and didn't know where to start.

To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life.

The writing life is mostly about stamina. To get to the finishing line requires the writing to become more interesting than everyday life...

Fiction is a wonderful home for the reach of the mind.

She is color, waiting to be mixed; a painting, ready to be brushed into life. She is a moment, waiting to be fixed forever under a shiny varnish.

The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them.

If the poet says that he can inflame men with love, which is the central aim in all animal species, the painter has the power to do the same, and to an even greater degree, in that he can place in front of the lover the true likeness of that which is beloved, often making him kiss and speak to it. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, Notebooks

art was a process of evolution - not revolution...

painting was not so much an art movement as a mission to free people from material concerns.

his hands got in the way of his art, preventing him from recording sensation as quickly as he experienced it.