Quotes About Creativity

Don and I took Bill Coons and made a writer out of him.

wrote it in the summer of 1959 in my furnished room at the Hotel Rio, on West Forty-Seventh Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

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There are only three things to be done with a woman' said Clea once. 'You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Each of our five senses contains an art.

He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura.

Esos momentos son los que colman al escritor, no al enamorado, y perduran para siempre. Podemos evocarlos cuantas veces queramos o utilizarlos como fundamento para construir esa parte de la vida que es la tarea de escribir.

Bir kad?nla üç ÅŸey yapabilirsin; ya onu seversin ya onun için ac? çekersin ya da onu yazars?n.

only there, in the silences of the painter or the writer can reality be reordered, reworked and made to show its significant side.

One night he woke to the soughing of great wings and saw a bat-like creature with the head of a violin resting upon the bedrail.

Yes, one day I found myself writing down with trembing fingers the four words with which every story-teller since the world began has staked his slender claim to the attention of his fellow-men. Words which presage simply the old story of an artist coming of age. I wrote: 'Once upon a time...

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I don't like plain nails. I get sad.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!