Quotes About Creativity

Yazmak, o çok söylenen basmakal?p deyiÅŸle, bir yoluculuÄŸa ç?kmaksa eÄŸer, yazmak mutluluÄŸu da yolculuk boyunca kar??n?za ç?k?veren bu yol arkadaÅŸlar?n? kendi dünyan?za kazand?rabilmenin sevinci olmal?.

In the realm of book arts, whenever a masterpiece is made, whenever a splendid picture makes my eyes water out of joy and causes a chill to run down my spine, I can be certain of the following: Two styles never brought together have come together to create something new and wondrous.

A great painter does not content himself by affecting us with his masterpieces; ultimately, he succeeds in changing the landscape of our minds. Once a miniaturist's artistry enters our souls this way, it becomes the criterion for the beauty of our world.

They paint what they see, whereas we paint what we look at.

wir wären die Dichter unseres eigenen Lebens, wenn wir erst in den Zeitungen schrieben, was uns geschehen wird, und dann staunend die schönen Dinge erleben, die wir verfasst haben

Samo?a je stvar ponosa: osamljcnik se na veoma nadmen na?in utapa u vlastitome mirisu... Problem pravoga pjesnika zapravo je uvijek isti: ako je dugo sretan, postane otrcan. A ako je dugo nesretan, ne može u sebi na?i snagu na koju bi se njegove pjesme mogle osloniti... Sre?a i pjesništvo - to ne može dugo zajedno. Nakon nekog vremena ili sre?a obezvrijedi pjesnika i njegovu poeziju ili mu prava poezija upropasti sre?u.

Benim için hakiki edebiyat?n baÅŸlad??? yer, kitaplarla kendini bir odaya kapatan adamd?r.

To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career. Despite whatever great artistic sense and talent a man might possess, he ought to seek money and power elsewhere to avoid forsaking his art when he fails to receive proper compensation for his gifts and efforts.

Roman sanat? kendimizden bir baÅŸkas? gibi ve baÅŸkalar?ndan kendimiz gibi söz açabilme hüneridir.

Pictura este t?cerea min?ii, muzica ochiului.

Only a poet—not a novelist, and certainly not a historian—would be able to describe the despair that began to seep through the city toward the middle of June.

I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.

Planning serendipity is about engaging as many parts of your organization as possible. It's about listening to people when they tell you that there's a problem and then empowering them to discover the solution. After all, the solution may very well be sitting in the room.

These three elements of contained chaos—white space, unusual suspects, and planned serendipity—can help both large businesses and small start-ups to introduce more innovation, drive growth, and propel excellence.

But in the information age, the paradigm for managers has shifted from managing bodies to managing minds. It is true that a body at rest is a body that is not producing. But a mind at rest could be a manager's, and a company's, greatest asset. Employees who are working ceaselessly on a problem may not be giving their brains the space they need to synthesize information and come up with insightful solutions. Think

Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Lo que importa no es tanto lo que haces con tus manos como lo que haces con tu mente. Todo lo que se ha logrado por la mano o el cerebro del hombre, nació en la mente.

Faith is the best substitute for genius; in fact, it is closely allied to genius.

Want has been the great schoolmaster of the race: necessity has been the mother of all great inventions.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

Isolation is the optimum environment for creativity.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.