Quotes About Creativity

Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.

to write only when you're inspired devalues the craft and defies your need to learn and improve. If you're committed to excellence in writing, you accept responsibility to do everything you can for your own self-improvement.

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

For her the magic was not what words had been, but what they were capable of: their ability to sketch, with one sweeping brushstroke, the contours of an experience, the form of a feeling. How they could make the effable effable, how they could never be fully unraveled, it held infinite mysteries and wonders and sometimes all you could do was stand agape, rubbing your eyes, trying to see properly.

For Mia, however, the photographs were only a vague approximation of what she wanted to express, and she soon found herself not only altering the prints – with everything from ballpoint pen to splashes of laundry detergent – but experimenting with the camera itself, bending its limited range to her desires.

Everything, she noticed, seemed capable of transmogrification. Even the two boulders in the backyard sometimes turned to silver in the early morning sunlight. In the books she read, every stream might be a river god, every tree a dryad in disguise, every old woman a powerful fairy, every pebble an enchanted soul. Anything had the potential to transform, and this, to her, seemed the true meaning of art.

She was always doing that, telling him stories. Prying open cracks for magic to seep in, making the world a place of possibility.

With each roll of film, however, she began to understand more and more how a photograph was put together, what it could do and what it could not, just how far you could stretch and twist it. Though she did not know it at the time, all of this was training her to be the photographer she would become.

For as long as she could remember, Pearl had understood the hierarchy: her mother's real work was her art, and whatever paid the bills existed only to make that art possible.

The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.

Any act of writing is an act of empathy: you try to imagine yourself into another person's mind and skin. I tried to ask myself the questions the characters would have asked themselves. The

that she never hung anything because when she wasn't working, she wanted the white space. Palate cleanser, Pauline would explain.

For her the magic was not what words had been, but what they were capable of: their ability to sketch, with one sweeping brushstroke, the contours of an experience, the form of a feeling.

She's some kind of artist," Mrs. Richardson had said, and when Mr. Richardson asked what kind, she answered jokingly, "A struggling one.

Anything had potential to transform, and this, to her, seemed the true meaning of art.

Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, Ada Limón,

For Mia, Moody learned, did not consider herself a photographer. Photography, at its heart, was about documentation, and he soon understood that for Mia photography was simply a tool, which she used as a painter might use a brush or a knife.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

Münaka?ada zafer, ma?lup olan?nd?r, yenilmek zenginle?mektir. …Münaka?a hakikati birlikte aramakt?r… Hakikat bin bir cepheli, bin bir görünü?lü. Kar??n?zdaki, göremedi?inizi gösterecek size. Sizden farkl? dü?ündü?ü ölçüde yarat?c? ve ö?reticidir.