Quotes About Creativity

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Escribir es que le dejen a uno llorar y reír a solas".

O livro é um pássaro com mais de cem asas para voar.

Era un pintor tan viejo que se le habían quedado calvos los pinceles. (He was such an old painter that his brushes had gone bald.)

La greguería es el género que se debe escribir en los bancos públicos, en los pretiles de los puentes, en las mesas de los cafés, al ir solos en los coches lentos que van acompañando a los entierros, en las mesas de las cocinas, en los fogones, etc.

Al inventarse el cine las nubes paradas en las fotografías comenzaron a andar.

People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition.

All great talents are never found in rich exquisite locales with perfect setting that enhance their creative works, but on the contrary are found in the most obnoxious circumstances yet are unaffected by them and create masterpieces at the most unpredictable situations, just like a lotus flower blossoming in a muddy pond!

An artist is one who can see divinity in nudity!

ART is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue dissolve in ART!

Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"

Trust me, all the innovative ideas that we put into practice, comes not within but outside the workplace!