Quotes About Creativity

as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

For instance, have you ever heard a square-wheeled steam roller ride over a street full of hard-boiled eggs he asked, and as he did, all that could be heard were loud crunching sounds.

so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

So many things are potable just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O'Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905)

Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

El arte de amar ¿Es arte de morir? Amar Es morir y revivir y remorir: Es la vivacidad.

is not really a system of painting but a method of internal investigation. It is not the philosophy of painting but painting as philosophy.

La poesía mueve al poeta como el viento a las nubes quietas: siempre más allá, hacia lo desconocido.

Cada poema es único. En cada obra late, con mayor o menor grado, toda la poesía. Cada lector busca algo en el poema. Y no es insólito que lo encuentre: Ya lo llevaba dentro.

Garabato Con un trozo de carbón Con mi gis roto y mi lápiz rojo dibujar tu nombre el nombre de tu boca el signo de tus piernas en la pared de nadie En la puerta prohibida grabar el nombre de tu cuerpo hasta que la hoja de mi navaja sangre y la piedra grite y el muro respire como un pecho...

El lente es una poderosa prolongación del ojo y, sin embargo, lo que nos muestra la fotografía, una vez revelada la película, es algo que no vio el ojo o que no pudo retener la memoria. Imaginar, componer y crear son verbos colindantes. Por la composición, la fotografía es un arte.

Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.

Writing, I am convinced, is the least appreciated of all the creative arts. Only a miniscule portion of the population engages in sculpting or painting or composing but everyone writes - whether it be letters, invitations, shopping lists...It is not far-fetched, therefore, for anyone with a smattering of self-esteem to believe that if he or she had the time, and the desire, an acceptable book or article could be produced.

but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about.

I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to become too conscious of it.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

You know, I may have another book in me, old man.