Quotes About Creativity

sex is but the ancilla of art

Art is a divine game.

Stop moping! she would cry: Look at the harlequins! What harlequins? Where? Oh, everywhere. All around you. Trees are harlequins, words are harlequins. So are situations and sums. Put two things together jokes, images and you get a triple harlequin. Come on! Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Nuestra imaginación vuela, nosotros somos su sombra en la tierra.

All I manage to glimpse is an effect of melting light on one side of her misty hair, and in this, I suspect, I am insidiously influenced by the standard artistry of modern photography and I feel how much easier writing must have been in former days when one's imagination was not hemmed in by innumerable visual aids, and a frontiersman looking at his first giant cactus or his first high snows was not necessarily reminded of a tire company's pictorial advertisement.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Ama Gogol'un tüfekleri havada as?l? durur ve ateÅŸlenmez; zira onun an??t?rmalar?n?n cazibesi de, bu an??t?rmalardan hiçbir ÅŸey ç?kmayacak olmas?ndan kaynaklan?r.

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

The truth is that great novels are great fairy tales... literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him.

We shall do our best to avoid the factual error of looking for so-called real life in novels. Let us not try and reconcile the fictions of facts with the facts of fiction. ... A master piece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

We shall do our best to avoid the factual error of looking for so-called real life in novels. Let us not try and reconcile the fiction of facts with the facts of fiction. ... A master piece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

I not only debar too definite a planet from any role in my story – from the role every dot and full stop should play in my story (which I see as a kind of celestial chart).

Every great writer is a great deceiver

Oh, 'philosophy.' You know. When you try to imagine a mirok [small pink potato] without the least reference to any you have eaten or will eat.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse

If there is some red spot on one of my paintings it is unlikely to be the heart of the work. The painting was done regardless of it. You could remove the red and still the painting would be there. But in Matisse's work it is inconceivable that you could remove a spot of red, no matter how small without the entire painting instantly collapsing.' Pablo Picasso

It is funnier to bend things than to break them.

Instead of drilling down and finding ways to creatively meet the target cost as Ford did, if companies give in to the tempting route of either bumping up the strategic price or cutting back on utility, they are not on the path to lucrative blue waters.

Technology is not a defining feature. You can create blue oceans with or without it.

In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set.

We don't have a theory of strategy creation

We hoped to push managers to create innovative proposals and break the boundaries of their conventional thinking.

Large R&D budgets are not the key to creating new market space. The key is making the right strategic moves.