Quotes About Creativity

That would mean looking at the case from entirely different angle," I said. "One so often has to do that - about everything. Don't you think so?

One wonders where these things come *from* -- I mean the ones that are a must. Sometimes I think that is the moment one feels nearest to God, because you have been allowed to feel a little of the joy of pure creation. You have been able to make something that is not yourself. You know a kinship with the Almighty, as you might on a seventh day, when you see that what you have made is good.

Pottery - the whole romance of humanity can be expressed in terms of poetry.

Lawrence lived in the midst of an artistic disarray that would have driven me quite mad.

There is always, of course, that terrible three weeks, or a month, which you have to get through when you are trying to get started on a book. There is no agony like it. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off . . . .

A crime can be a work of art. A detective can be an artist.

It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea.

If one idea in particular seems attractive, and you feel you could do something with it, then you toss it around, play tricks with it, work it up, tone it down, and gradually get it into shape. Then, of course, you have to start writing it. That's not nearly such fun–it becomes hard work. Alternatively, you can tuck it carefully away, in storage, for perhaps using in a year or two years' time.

Writing's not particularly enjoyable. It's hard work like everything else.

Date troppo corda alla fantasia. La fantasia è un'ottima serva, ma una pessima padrona. La spiegazione più semplice quasi sempre si rivela esatta.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

The way of an artist is an entirely different way. It is a way of surrender.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.

I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness

A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.

There is always an apple way of doing things.

breakthroughs occur only when one is able to view things in a completely different, new way.

Don't use " backspace " every moment ,, because every time you do ,, you kill a space !!

The object of the poet is not to accurately describe an emotion brought about from an experience, but rather, the poem is an acknowledgement that words have rendered themselves useless and the attempt to write is merely an acknowledgement of that moment

The path less taken disinterests me while the path frequently taken appalls me. I'd rather find a path never taken before