Quotes About Creativity

Professor, you are very hard on that young Canadian girl! Hard? The Professor shrugged, spread his palms. Art - the girl has 'makings.' It takes red-hot fury to dig 'em up. If I'm harsh it's for her own good. More often than not worth while things hurt. Art's worth while.

Why must these people go on, and on, copying, copying fragments of old relics from extinct churches, and old tombs as though those were the best that could ever be, and it would be a sacrilege to beat them? Why didn't they want to out-do the best, instead of copying, always copying what had been done?

They already realized possibilities that we couldn't see. They heard the music and designed inner worlds out of what they dreamed....

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Susie, what shall I do - there is'nt room enough; not half enough, to hold what I was going to say. Wont you tell the man who makes sheets of paper, that I hav'nt the slightest respect for him!

Split the Lark—and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled.

We are the only poets," Emily told Susan, "and everyone else is prose.

I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors –

Dwell in possibility

Emily Dickinson

Split the lark and you'll find the music

I dwell in Possibility—

Perché nasca una prateria, bastano un trifoglio, un'ape e un sogno. E se non ci sono le api e il trifoglio, può bastare anche il sogno.

They shut me up in Prose – As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet – Because they liked me still – Still! Could themself have peeped – And seen my Brain – go round – They might as wise have lodged a Bird For Treason – in the Pound –

No hay una fragata como un libro para llevarnos a tierras lejanas, ni caballos mejores que una página de piafante poesía. Pueden hacer el viaje los más pobres, no se pagan portazgos, porque no necesita casi nada la carroza que lleva al alma humana.

jenna preferred to think of alice that way - like an art project, colors swirling inside her, rather than of how sick she was.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

Just when you think you have summed everything up, painted it clearly and given meaning to what was once just a pool of colored paint, another canvas crops up blank and ready to be filled.

Only boring people get bored.

It's not about the actors, though, Peter. That's the thing. It's about the writing.

I've always considered myself lucky that I could mostly earn a living by doing what I love, but a bonus has been the sheer escape that comes with woodworking. What do they call it? Being in the zone or the flow?

That's bad art, you know. Copying reality without interpreting it." "Mmm. But illusion is not art. It can be a tool for art, but there is nothing of genuine creation in it.