Quotes About Creativity

Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Kad budu svi roktali svojim svinjskim srcima, poslednji koji ?e još gledati ljudskim o?ima i ose?ati ljudskim srcem bi?e oni kojima ne bejaše strano iskustvo umetnosti.

Otela mi je, Igore brate, moju sebi?nost, moje remekdelo!

O ?emu još govore njeni paragrafi, prazne rubrike koje je ispisivala nevidljivim mastilom mašta de?aka?

I don't want to make a tea set. I want to make crystal, as the wonderful Billy Wiseass would put it. That poor bastard has it good: he's never experienced love. It'll be easy for him to write a romance novel.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get. In fact, you'll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as you'd hoped and planned. So let it go. Release your ego's desire for perfection. Take risks. Stretch. Grow. Create as much as you can, whenever you can.

The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.

Remember: Writing is drawing.

It's ironic that people speak of artists as dreamers. I think they are the most grounded people around. Conscious and present. As an artist, you really see life, connect with its beauty, and create something that shares those observations with others. You notice things.

An artist is someone who sees and feels realty very intensely. Creativity doesn't mean just making things up out of thin air. It means seeing and feeling the world so vividly that you can put together connections and patterns that help to explain reality. It means you see the beauty in the world rather than trying to hide from it.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life." -Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Birds sing, wolves howl, crickets chirp. But why? Money? Fame? Record contracts? Endorsements? What's it all for? They do it because they're alive. They do it because life is about making things.

Creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life.

bear in mind that interesting art doesn't come from trying to slavishly turn a photo into a drawing. Try to add as much as you can of your own to the image.

Read this book when you are stuck. But don't read it instead of drawing.

look before you draw and believe what your eyes, not the rest of your head, tell you.

Keep your eyes on the things you are drawing 80 percent of the time and on your page just 20 percent.

Making art will show you how much you already have. Your real treasures. A brand-new Maserati is a lot less beautiful to draw than a rusty old pickup.