Quotes About Creativity

L'Amour, la Poésie, c'est par ce seul ressort que la pensée humaine parviendra à reprendre le large.

Chère imagination, ce que j'aime surtout en toi, c'est que tu ne pardonnes pas.

Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.

Puis, soudain, se plaçant devant moi, m'arrêtant presque, avec cette manière extraordinaire de m'appeler, comme on appellerait quelqu'un, de salle en salle, dans un château vide: "André? André?... Tu écriras un roman sur moi. Je t'assure. Ne dis pas non. Prends garde, tout s'affaiblit, tout disparait. De nous il faut que quelque chose reste...""-Nadja

We have said nothing about Chirico until we take into account his most personal views about the artichoke, the glove, the cookie, or the spool.

Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.

Milagre da literatura, quando é verdadeira.

But, of course, of course, I imitated everyone! Except myself. -- Pablo Picasso

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

Bueno-explicó-(¿Qué más desea el lector:¿Explicó?¿Contó?¿Dijo?¿Musitó?¿Interecedió?¿Requirió?¿Sibiló?, esta última palabra para enriquecer el conocido y monotonísimo axioma del fanfarrón y pseudovanguardista J.COrtázar. ¡Ah, los caminos sin fin de la vana literatura!)

La música es cada uno de esos pedacitos que antes tuve en mí y los fui desprendiendo al azar. Yo estoy ante una cosa y pienso en miles. La música es la solución a lo que yo no enfrento, mientras pierdo el tiempo mirando la cosa: un libro (en los que ya no puedo avanzar dos páginas), el sesgo de una falda, de una reja. La música es también, recobrado, el tiempo que yo pierdo.

The filmmaker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist.