Quotes About Creativity

Tenho pensamentos que, se conseguisse realizá-los e torná-los vivos, acrescentariam uma nova luz às estrelas, uma nova beleza ao mundo e um maior amor ao coração dos homens.

Every good conversation should be a two-way monologue… We should ultimately be unable to tell whether we really talked with someone or simply imagined the conversation… The best and profoundest conversations, and the least morally instructive ones, are those that novelists have between two characters from one of their books.

Fernando Pessoa

It's better to write than dare to live, even if living is nothing more than buying bananas...

When it comes to dreams, I'm no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is that I can write. Yes, that's an activity, a real fact about myself that distinguishes me from them. But in my soul I'm just the same.

20 [56] That is the central error of a literary imagination: the idea that other people are like us and must therefore feel like us. Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

Sólo sabe escribir quien es capaz de ver sus propios sueños con nitidez (y es así) o ver en sueños la vida, verla de forma inmaterial, haciéndole fotos con la máquina del devaneo, sobre la cual los rayos de lo pesado, de lo útil y de lo restringido no pueden actuar, revelándose en negro la placa espiritual.

With this thoroughly established, complete and autonomous plays can unfold in us line by line. We may no longer have the energy to write them, but that won't be necessary. We'll be able to create secondhand; we can imagine one poet writing in us in one way, while another poet will write in a different way. I, having refined this skill to a considerable degree, can write in countlessly different ways, all of them original.

We're stories telling stories, (…)

A dandy in spirit, he paraded the art of dreaming through the pure happenstance of existence.

GörünüÅŸe bak?l?rsa uygarl?klar s?rf sanat ve edebiyat üretmek için var, kelimelerse onlardan bize kalan, bizimle konuÅŸan ÅŸeyler.

Desenrolo-me como uma meada multicolor, ou faço comigo figuras de cordel, como as que se tecem nas mãos espetadas e se passam de umas crianças para as outras. Cuido só de que o polegar não falhe o laço que lhe compete. Depois viro a mão e a imagem fica diferente. E recomeço.

Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that's one of the rules of the game.

The value of art is that it takes us away from here.

Mas as paisagens sonhadas são apenas fumos de paisagens conhecidas e o tédio de as sonhar também é quase tão grande como o tédio de olharmos para o mundo.

Por qué es bello el arte? Porque es inútil ¿Por qué es tan fea la vida? Porque en ella todo son fines y propósitos.

Disasters in novels are always beautiful because no real blood is shed in them, nor do the dead rot; in novels, not even rottenness is rotten.

Tutti sentono. Tutti pensano. Però non tutti sentono con il pensiero o pensano con l'emozione. Per questo le persone sono molte e gli artisti sono pochi.

One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

Ars est celare artem.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.