Quotes About Creativity

Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode.

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one.

Fevvers felt that shivering sensation which always visited her when mages, wizards, impresarios came to take away her singularity as though it were their own invention, as though they believed she depended on their imaginations n order to be a woman. She felt herself turning, willy-nilly, from a woman into an idea.

Necessary connections are fabulous beasts.

Lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

That admirable woman thought so humbly of her own potboiling that to hear it stigmatised by a critic of Stoker's mental powers as rubbishy stuff didn't depress her in the least. If she could have made it more rubbishy, and so sold more thousands of copies than she did, she would willingly have done so, but the artist in her, on whose existence George Knox and Adrian always insisted, kept her standard up, firmly if spasmodically.

We write to taste life twice" Anais Nin

She says if she surrounded herself with work by mediocre artists all day she'd slit her wrist with frustration. What do you mean? I find it inspiring. When was the last time you saw a Latina artist in a gallery? I never thought about it like that.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but there is nothing that guarantees a successful pregnancy.

Thomas (1844–1916), American painter

Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell . . . it loses its force for me.

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.