Quotes About Creativity

profession." "Art

Books are the world.

Se as pessoas não gostaseem de olhar para coisas atraentes, a arte não existiria.

painting, in music, in literature or theater? If so, did that make the rest of the world nothing more than the audience? Passive observers whose only contribution was applause or criticism?

beautifully wrapped. She reached for her tape, pulled the end—and got the sliver left on the roll.

Acreditas em magia, Simon? Não estou a falar em truques de cartas, mas no tipo de coisas que se lêm nas histórias como o Harry Potter ou o Hobbit. - Se não fossem reais, porque é que haveria tantos livros, filmes e tretas assim acerca disso?

Of course naked. What's the point otherwise? She's got the most amazing tattoo on her --

Thank you! We carry local artists and artisans. There are so many

You don't write what you know, or you would write one thing. I never understood that. You write what you want to find out.

good a writer." "I'm not bad, but you're right, book form isn't my strength. I'll hire a ghost this time.

Not everyone who loves music can play the tune. Estelle

thought of it. She didn't have a clear idea what she intended to do, but the one thing she

What am I supposed to do? Beat her to death with my tripod?

The peculiarity of innovative fantasies in the form of works of art is that they are fantasies kindled by material which is accessible to many people. In a word, they are de-privatised fantasies. That sounds simple, but the whole difficulty of artistic creation shows itself when someone tries to cross this bridge — the bridge of de-privatisation. It could also be called the bridge of sublimation.

In other words, the more differentiated, relatively developed societies have cultivated a comparatively high tolerance for highly individualised ways of further developing the existing art canon; this facilitates experimentation and the breaching of stale conventions and can thus help to enrich the artistic pleasures available through seeing and hearing.

In the course of the changing relationship between those who produce art and those who need and buy it, the structure of art changes, not its value.

A] person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.

In giving latitude to his individual fantasy, and especially to his ability to synthesise previously separate elements in a way which breaches the existing canon of taste, he initially reduces his chance of finding resonance in the public. [...] In this respect, too, without realizing it, Mozart had inaugurated another shift in the balance of power.

That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead to dullness, imitation, and mediocrity.

Professor Branestawm

some of the characters are

the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only a floating ash.

Everything is fair in love and art.