Quotes About Creativity

El pintor es dueño de todas las cosas que el hombre pueda pensar... lo que en el universo existe por esencia, presencia o imaginación, él lo tiene antes en su mente y en sus manos luego

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.

Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there's an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the reader's active participation. Books are good for your brain.

And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing-- turn your toes out when you walk--- And remember who you are!

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret: All the best people are.

And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.

Mad Hatter: Am I going mad? Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.