Quotes About Creativity

Sewing mends the soul.

When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.

Stitch your stress away.

May your bobbin always be full!

I'd rather be stitchin' than in the kitchen!

I'm itchin' to be stitchin'!

I cannot count my day complete 'Til needle, thread and fabric meet.

Quilters never grow old, they just go to pieces.

Sewing is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

A bed without a quilt is like a sky without stars.

If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise?

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day.

A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes.

Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

Two most important things in a writer's wallet: library card and poetic license.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Nothing is to be called a fault in poetry, says Aristotle, but what is against the art: therefore a man may be an admirable poet, without being an exact chronologer.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

A prose-writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.