Quotes About Creativity

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

Porque nada puede ser tan sorprendente como la vida. Excepto la escritura. Excepto la escritura. Si, por supuesto, excepto la escritura, el único consuelo

Tužna projekcija života za pjesnika je primamljivija od samog života.

As?l olan hikâyedir. [...] Güzel bir resim bir hikâyeyi zarafetle tamamlar.

A great painter does not content himself by affecting us with his masterpieces; ultimately, he succeeds in changing the landscape of our minds.

Beni hayata ba?layan,bana iyimserlik veren bir ?ey vard? bu hayalde.

just pop this one out, too

Over time, jealousy becomes an element as indispensable as paint in the life of the master artist.

Porque cuando ves esos cuadros tú también quieres verte así, quieres creer que eres una criatura completamente distinta a las demás, sin igual, particular y extraña.

To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind.

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, the image that comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words.

Of course he was conceited: having devoured most of what had been accomplished before his time, he turned up his nose at it all; he had no doubt he'd do better; he had no equal; he knew he was more intelligent and creative than anyone else. In short, he was an average youth.

no cambiaría nada saber que la escritura, que cualquier texto, no trata de la vida sino del sueño, por el mero hecho de ser escritura.

He was a poet and, as he himself had written—in an early poem still largely unknown to Turkish readers—it snows only once in our dreams.

Poetry is like painting. Some attracts you more if you stand near, some if you're further off.

Yo nunca he dibujado la sorpresa, como cientos de maestros ilustradores llevan siglos haciendo, con alguien que se lleva al índice al círculo de la boca, sino que he hecho que de toda la pintura emanara sorpresa.

Roman sanat? kendi yaÅŸad???m?z hikayeleri baÅŸkalar?n?n hikayesi gibi, baÅŸkalar?n?n yaÅŸad??? hikayeleri de kendimiz yaÅŸam???z gibi yazabilme hünerine dayan?r.

The art of the novel is based on the craft of telling our own stories as if they belonged to others, and of telling other people's stories as if they were our own.

Ne kadar hünerin ve yeteneÄŸin olursa olsun paray? ve iktidar? baÅŸka yerlerde ara ki, hüner ve emeÄŸinin kar??l???n? alamay?nca sanata küsmeyesin.

Of course, I will be remembered only so long as my illustrations and manuscripts cause your eyes to prance and flowers of bliss to bloom in your hearts.

Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to feel to the margins; it was, he said, this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.

Nietzsche's words: before speaking of art, one must try to create a work of art.

Hanya orang yang sangat pintar dan sangat tidak bahagia bisa menulis puisi yang bagus.

We write novels not because we feel we understand life and people, but because we feel we understand other novels and the art of the novel, and wish to write in a similar way.