Quotes About Creativity

Yes, everything that is truly seen must become a poem.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.

Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he has been trained to do is practice a process called design, a process that includes esthetic choices but does not consist only of them.

While one can do nothing about choosing one's relatives one can, as artist, choose one's "ancestors."

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Penulis sama dengan orang-orang lain, kecuali untuk satu perbedaan kecil yang penting. Orang lain berpikir dan merasa setiap hari, tetapi mereka tidak melakukan apa-apa dengan itu. Sebaliknya, penulis bereaksi.

Writing words is like flying, Rachel thought. Words aren't solid. Words are lighter than air. But even so, they can sometimes give you a lift.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. MARK TWAIN

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

One thing that separates would-be writers from working writers is that the latter know their work will never match their dreams.

Henrik Ibsen hung a picture of August Strindberg over his desk. "He is my mortal enemy and shall hang there and watch while I write!" explained Ibsen.

I prefer a man who is unskillful, who is an awkward writer, but who has something to say, who is dealing himself one time on every page.

Find tricks to keep yourself going," William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. "Anything you can do to trick yourself out of panicking, do it.

Success as a writer is within the grasp of whoever can tell a story on paper that people want to hear, and is willing to persist, to put up with boredom, frustration, and anxiety.