Quotes About Creativity

Quando non sai cos'è, allora è jazz.

El estilo es de unos pocos. Surge de una intimidad muy elevada y misteriosa con un material concreto. No se puede enseñar, se posee. Es un acontecimiento.

Mert gondolj bele: a zongora. A billenty?k kezdÅ'dnek. A billenty?knek vége. Tudod jól, nyolcvannyolc van belÅ'lük, nem verhetnek át vele. Nem végtelenek. Te vagy végtelen, és ott, a billenty?k belsejében végtelen a zene, melyet megszólaltatsz. Azok nyolcvannyolcan vannak. Te végtelen vagy.

rimane l'ombra di un sapore che la costringe a pensare acqua di mare, quest'uomo dipinge il mare con il mare.

Certo... sai che musica però... con quelle mani, due, destre... se solo c'è un pianoforte...

He was a thread of gold running straight into the woof of a carpet woven by a madman.

I got a little tape recorder and laid it on my chest and kept describing the scene as I saw it. Just the opening scenes took about 45 minutes. I don't know how it's going to end, but I like it that way. If I knew how it ended, I'd lose interest in the story.

the Spaniards think, and the French think up.

Ideas never die, but they just sometimes fall into a dream, only to be awaken much stronger than they were when asleep

Any fool can write about dejection, but describing happiness takes determination and skill.

Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a novel, and this meant that there really weren't enough characters to go round. Unless, of course, one wrote about people who were themselves writing novels. And what would the novels that these fictional characters were writing be about? Well, they would be novels about people writing novels.

The ordinary you, the you that has to go to work every morning, the you that has to run a household, pay bills, do all of those things--that you is somehow changed into an exciting, artistic, fully alive you. That's what Paris does.

It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry, said Angus Lordie. In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.

Perhaps this was a concomitant of freedom: if people were free, then some of them, at least, would be free of the constraints of good taste. Perhaps

He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved.

Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real life and feel that they have to create imaginary lives to make up for it.

La poésie: cette sauce dont on recouvrait la réalité pour lui donner meilleur goût.

he had said that he had used a camera obscura device to paint his pictures. It had seemed such an unlikely theory, and yet Hockney's explanation made it seem so feasible. It was all to do with angles and perspective, and when you came to look at a Vermeer, there was a definite photographic feel to the artist's work.

It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.

By comparison with such lives, our days were inconsequential indeed, and yet even though our canvas was small, still we could paint a masterpiece—as long as we were content for it to be a miniature.

It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people.

There are plenty of people who might prefer to go sideways. What about them? How are we to inspire them?

That is why the artist will always be happy—no matter how the world treats him. If he knows that what he creates is good, then he can bear the indifference of others.

Computers change the way we deal with words," Dr. Macgregor continued. "They somehow unlock language in the mind. But they do so in a very particular way – they induce Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, I suppose we should call it logorrhoea, a sort of verbal diarrhoea. The words come tumbling out and people feel they can go on and on. And they do. Poetry has to be much more disciplined, much more concise.