Quotes About Creativity

?lham kaynaklar? Eski Yunan'?n iki remiz ismi: Dionizos-Apollon. Birincisi, romantizmin temsilcisi., hamle, macera, aray??, hürriyet. ?kincisi, klasisizmin.. sanat, tasannu, dam?tma ve süzme. Oysa kemal, ikisinin kayna?mas? de?il mi? Her büyük romantik, klasik olmak zorundad?r. Romantizmle kanatlanmayan klasisizm içi bo? bir mahfaza. Ölümsüz abideler çift mimar?n eseri: Dionizos-Apollon.

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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

La letteratura è una difesa contro le offese della vita.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Litterature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: 'You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching your reactions, and steal your secrets by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.' ...

Tutta l'arte è un problema di equilibrio fra due opposti.

la literatura es la defensa frente a las ofensas de la vida

Il genio non è scoprire un motivo esterno e trattarlo bene, ma giungere finalmente a possedere la propria esperienza, il proprio corpo, i propri ricordi, il proprio ritmo – ed esprimere, esprimere questo ritmo, fuori dalla limitatezza degli argomenti, della materia, nella perenne fecondità di un pensiero che per definizione non ha fondo.

Un passato deve essere tanto familiare da poterlo rivivere meccanicamente e tanto inaspettato da farci stupire ogni volta che vi ritorniamo: allora è adatto alla fantasia.

You can't creatively help a business until you know how it works.

a big company makes a wonderful place to go and semiretire for a while if you're burned out. But if you're striving to be remarkable (which you are!), a big company is a hard place to get into the right groove in the same way that a bakery is a bad place to go to try to work off your love handles. The solution? Go independent!

Set your sights higher. Don't think of yourself as a programmer at a specific company—after all, it's not likely that you'll be at the same place forever—but as a participating member of an industry. You are a craftsperson or an artist. You have something to share beyond the expense-reporting application you're developing for your human resources department or the bugs you've got stacked up in your company's issue-tracking system.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.

Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.