Quotes About Creativity

creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.

Van Gogh summarized this entire book in a single sentence: "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Skip perfection. A lame drawing is better than no drawing.

Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up.

Get used to eating cold toast. Draw your breakfast every day. Then eat it.

Un disegno dieci minuti di pan tostato è un zilione di volte meglio di un disegno a zero minuto di pan tostato.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Make new mistakes every day. Don't waste time repeating the old ones.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

But unlike the classically trained, my dancing had no respect for so-called boundaries; I wasn't afraid to break the rules.

We supped at our pints, imagining a whale fighting a giant squid, probably just as thousands of other men in pubs across the land were doing at that moment.

It's exciting for a boy to have a project. For one thing, it makes you start thinking of stationary, and we all know how exciting that can be… But there's something about buying a new ringbinder that really makes me feel like a grownup. That said, I don't actually own any.

Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Thou [Virgil] art my master and my author, thou art he from whom alone I took the style whose beauty has done me honor.

Beauty like hers is genius.

Naciste original, no mueras siendo una copia,

Et c'est quoi la différence entre art et culture? L'art n'arrive que si on met sa culture en danger

J'écris à voix haute dans mon coeur.

Ce qui est sûr c'est que je n'aurais pas écrit ainsi si j'étais resté là-bas. Peut-être que je n'aurais pas écrit du tout. Écrit-on hors de son pays pour se consoler? Je doute de toute vocation d'écrivain en exil.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

The function of the first draft is to help you figure out your story. The function of every draft after that is to figure out the most dramatic way to tell that story.