Quotes About Creativity

Uno debe poder sentirse herido y trastornado; de lo contrario, no puede pensar frases realmente buenas, penetrantes como los rayos X.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescaline, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful. A little of the knowledge belonging to Mind at Large oozes past the reducing valve of brain and ego, into his consciousness.

It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

La organización excesiva transforma a los hombres y mujeres en autómatas, sofoca el espíritu creador y suprime la misma posibilidad de la libertad.

Pero, aunque indispensable, la organización también puede ser fatal. La organización excesiva transforma a hombres y mujeres en autómatas, sofoca el espíritu creador y suprime la misma posibilidad de la libertad.

Did you ever feel...as though you had something inside you that as only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using--you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

If] you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures... . You do not invent these creatures ... . They live their own lives in complete independence. A man cannot control them.

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I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

When burdened by the feeling that there are too many photographs in the world, I ask myself if there are too many flowers.

Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.

The true man of genius deliberately subordinates himself, reduces himself to a negative, and allows his genius to play through him as It will. We all know how stupid we are when we try to do things. Seek to make any other muscle work as consistently as your heart does without your silly interference -- you cannot keep it up for forty-eight hours.

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest

Que se ha cansado de ver siempre los mismos colores y se ha vendado los ojos una temporada para olvidarlos y pensar otros nuevos.

Encuentro que la vida es aburrida y estúpida por falta de imaginación. Demasiada razón, demasiada disciplina en todo.

La Naturaleza es más de la mitad del arte.

El arte no es cosa de experiencia; es cosa de imaginación. Javier de Maistre hacía viajes maravillosos alrededor de su cuarto; Beethoven era sordo; Milton cuando escribió el canto a la luz, estaba ciego.

Es necesario ser desgraciado para explotar ciertos manantiales misteriosos, ocultos en la inteligencia humana.

A world of houses where Californian, the Gothic or Moorish, dwarf Parthenons, Greek temples with lights and venetian blinds mixed with Renaissance villas.

He always clothed his thoughts in elegant expressions, for a word said well was akin to a gold apple in a goblet of transparent sardonyx, and that was why the words of the wise were as sharp as needles, and as strong as nails, and their creators were all from the same stock.

Cos'era?» «Non lo so» Gli si illuminarono gli occhi. «Quando non sai cos'è, allora è jazz»

Das Spinngewebe seiner Seele war wieder zu einer Falle für jene sonderbaren Fliegen geworden, die man Ideen nennt.

Il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.

A volte le parole non bastano. E allora servono i colori. E le forme. E le note. E le emozioni.