Quotes About Creativity

Just like a spider with a line of silk! Did you ever see them throw themselves out into space to weave? They're taking a chance, every single time. They got to do it or else they'd never create anything. But I bet it don't feel good, even to a spider.

Critics are eager to discover a new voice. For some reason they're just as eager to be disappointed by a second novel.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. —Margaret Atwood

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. —Susan Sontag

Al fotografo viaggiatore, Buon cammino! Belle foto!

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

No matter what challenge you may be facing, you must remember that while the canvas of your life is painted with daily experiences, behaviors, reactions, and emotions, you're the one controlling the brush. If I had known this at 21, I could have saved myself a lot of heartache and self-doubt. It would have been a revelation to understand that we are all the artists of our own lives—and that we can use as many colors and brushstrokes as we like.

You can't buy happiness, so why not grow your own? All you need is a piece of fertile ground (ypur beautiful mind) plus some hardy seeds of wisdom, creativity, and plain good sense.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Painting taught literature to describe.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career.

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

el arte que es simplemente malo ni siquiera es capaz de provocarnos repugnancia.

La poesía y la pintura, el color y la palabra, son hermanos, ya lo sabes.

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

After all, nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays no attention to what his enemies, the zealots and those who envy him have to say.