Quotes About Creativity

to stand in front of some of his drawings or pictures gives a keener and more spiritual pleasure than any other kind of painting.

Cualquier creación artística es hija de su tiempo y, la mayoría de las veces, madre de nuestros propios sentimientos. Igualmente, cada periodo cultural produce un arte que le es propio y que no puede repetirse. Pretender revivir principios artísticos del pasado puede dar como resultado, en el mejor de los casos, obras de arte que sean como un niño muerto antes de nacer. Por ejemplo, es totalmente imposible sentir y vivir interiormente como lo hacían los antiguos griegos.

It has been said above that art is the child of its age. Such an art can only create an artistic feeling which is already clearly felt. This art, which has no power for the future, which is only a child of the age and cannot become a mother of the future, is a barren art. She is transitory and to all intent dies the moment the atmosphere alters which nourished her.

Renk klavye, gözler tokmaklar, ruh ise piyanodur. Sanatç? da piyanoyu çalan eldir. Tu?lara dokunarak ruhta titre?imler yarat?r.

the relationships in art are not necessarily ones of outward form, but are founded on inner sympathy of meaning.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.

I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I'm having sex with words in front of you. I'm playing around with them. I'm getting off. I'm trying to titillate you. There's this magical substance, language, that I'm laying out for you. Then you're going to fondle it.

Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

Adults who were hurt as children inevitably exhibit a peculiar strength, a profound inner wisdom, and a remarkable creativity and insight. Deep within them - just beneath the wound - lies a profound spiritual vitality, a quiet knowing, a way of perceiving what is beautiful, right, and true. Since their early experiences were so dark and painful, they have spent much of their lives in search of the gentleness, love, and peace they have only imagined in the privacy of their own hearts.

If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.

I know I am a writer because until I'm writing I don't know what I know.

In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.

Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

People are not merely the product of a zeitgeist; Shakespeare is not just an Elizabethan writer.

To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.

Our talents do not entirely belong to us, nor do we choose them; they find us. - Lincoln Kirstein to Jerome Robbins