Quotes About Creativity

He went down a step and sat with his back against his sweetheart's legs. She put her notebook on his head.

Look, isn't this beautiful? So simple. Just one stroke, and there you are. A flower, a fish, a grasshopper. Look at this duck, how angry it looks; or these mountains in the mist. And you see how he's drawn the mist? As if it were nothing, just an emptiness. And these chicks, see them? So soft you want to stroke them. Look, his ink is like down, his ink is soft...

Mit einem Spatz erwachte Camille Fauque aus einem tiefen Schlaf, es folgten zwei, dann drei, dann ein ganzer Vogelschwarm spöttisch dreinschauender Vögel. Sie hatte seit über einem Jahr nichts mehr gezeichnet.

Camille didn't know how to cook, so she had stopped in at Goubetzkoï's and bought an assortment of tarama , salmon, marinated fish and onion chutneys. They filled all the great-uncle's little bowls with painstaking care, and to reheat the blinis on the hot plate they fashioned an ingenious sort of toaster from an old lid and some tinfoil.

The purer the elements, the purer the work. In painting, there are two methods of expression, form and color; and the purer the colors, the purer the beauty of the work.

After all, nobody else ever made a sketch of the dishes in your sink. That you probably can't think of a similar image is also helpful.

In addition, you can be sure your drawing of your surroundings will have a modest degree of originality. After all, nobody else ever made a sketch of the dishes in your sink. That you probably can't think of a similar image is also helpful.

Many artists find that a forced separation from their studio caused by events like sickness, vacation, or a move makes it hard to begin again.

To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.

Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving. from "In That Great River: A Notebook," Poetry . Originally Published: June 1, 2010

I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That's the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.

Nature is the greatest developer of art.

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had." [ Commencement Speech ; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]

Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

A family mission statement formed in my head: 'We're a family that tells tall tales to add a little magic to our realism.

She wasn't sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.

Nothing made her want to strip a man naked more than knowing he had good ideas

Then, they took things to the next level: They founded an anonymized text repo together,