Quotes About Creativity

I like the feeling of being about to confront an experience and resolve it as art. —Eudora Welty

The poem is smarter than the poet and more rebellious. A strong poem will override its author's initial intentions.

Having something to say is a curse; having an ax to grind is deadly. But everything makes poetry happen.

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

The Victorian era produced more Victorian writers than any other period in history.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

Writing is more about discovery than invention.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

God's image has been imprinted uniquely on each of us. In God's infinite creativity there are no duplicates; you are the only you there has ever been or ever will be.

It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Gehorsam folgt blind, Freiheit hat offene Augen. Gehorsam handelt ohne zu fragen, Freiheit fragt nach dem Sinn. Gehorsam hat gebundene Hände, Freiheit ist schöpferisch.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.