Quotes About Creativity

The logic of an arms race came to rule in art: and legions of untalented hacks who came after Miró devoted themselves to thinking about what had never been done before rather than about what they wanted to express.

The social and cultural critic Theodor Adorno eloquently voiced this cast of mind when he proclaimed the final death of art after the Second World War. After Auschwitz, he said, it was no longer possible to produce fine art. The world had become too horrible. 'There is nothing innocuous left,' he declared. 'The

George Orwell once said that he wanted to turn political writing into an art:

Art is the stored honey of the human soul.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Now and then I am asked as to 'what books a statesman should read,' and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.

It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.

The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than owning material things. I also see art as something people will do rather than consume, and do it as a natural part of their lives; creative endeavors are a form of profound spiritual satisfaction.

The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

You write out of need. You write out of hunger. It isn't your brilliance; it's the flaw in your makeup that drives you.

Din eskiden ÅŸiirseldi. Ancak bask?lar alt?nda nesre dönüÅŸtü. Bilimle ayn? boks ringine girdiÄŸini düÅŸündü ve tan?nmaz hale geldi.

I have chosen to write about women, because I am not one myself, and because I have always preferred to write about subjects which do not tempt me to be so arrogant as to believe that I can ever fully understand them, but above all because many women seem to me to be looking at life with fresh eyes, and their autobiographies, in various forms, are the most original part of contemporary literature

Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?