Quotes About Creativity

Be kind to our language: avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

leyendo liras deliras

Be someone's muse.

For women, cloth also tended to represent the work of their hands, the female branches of family trees, and notions of the feminine ideal. Passing on a textile, then, symbolized women's ability, creativity, and continuance.

Qui mi fanno lavorare su cazzate, poi tutte stronzate! E il bello è che poi arriva il cliente e dice che non sono abbastanza stronzate! Troppo raffinate...

It is for this reason that art, true art, the one that comes from the soul, is so important in our lives. Art consoles us, it lifts us and directs us. Art cures us. We are not only that which we eat and the air that we breathe. We are also the stories we have heard, the tales we fell asleep listening to when we were children, the books we have read, the music we heard and the emotions that a painting, a statue, or a poem have given us.

Lubi? pisa? listy. Zawsze my?la?em, ?e gdybym urodzi? si? w bogatej rodzinie i trzysta lat temu tam, gdzie urodzi?em si? w biedzie, we Florencji, chcia?bym tylko podró?owa? po ca?ym ?wiecie, ?eby pisa? listy. Dziennikarstwo do pewnego stopnia pozwoli?ó mi robi? co? podobnego, ale by?em ograniczony i?o?ci? miejsca, terminami, wymogami j?zyka. Teraz w ko?cu mog? po prostu pisa? listy.

There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

There's no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

Tobin Hart calls play "the holy work of children" that helps them "find and define themselves."[2]

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

Bad writing is almost always a love poem addressed by the self to the self. The person who will admire it first and last and most is the writer herself.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

Waeges, Menog, and Oestara." I named them from right to left. "Autumn, Winter, and Spring.

I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.