Quotes About Creativity

Bueno, esa es con frecuencia la cuestión, ¿no? En el mundo del arte clásico, las obras se aprecian en base a la ejecución del artista; es decir, la destreza con la que pinta el lienzo o cincela la piedra. En el arte moderno, sin embargo, la valoración se basa más en la idea que en su ejecución. Por ejemplo, cualquiera puede componer una sinfonía de cuarenta minutos que consista únicamente en un acorde y silencio, pero fue Klein quien tuvo la idea.

Uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate ad darkness.

There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudi was once quoted as saying, and indeed, there were very few straight lines seen his work either.

Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.

dos tipos de religiones: los credos dogmáticos y oscuros, que reprimen todo pensamiento original… y las religiones luminosas y expansivas, que fomentan la introspección y la creatividad.

The left brain was analytical and verbal, while the right brain was intuitive and "preferred" pictures to words.

symbature—a symbol used in place of a signature. Many of the early philosophers, artists, and authors signed their work with their own unique symbol or monogram rather than their name. This practice added a mysterious allure to their work and also protected them from persecution should their writings or artwork be deemed counterestablishment.

Dar incertitudinea a fost întotdeauna un precursor al transform?rilor de amploare; schimbarea este în mod inevitabil precedat? de team? È™i de tulbur?ri. V? îndemn s? aveÈ›i încredere în capacitatea omului de a fi creativ È™i de a iubi, fiindc? atunci când sunt combinate, aceste dou? forÈ›e au puterea de a ilumina orice întuneric.

Hanya krn pkiran manusia tdk bs mmbayangkn ssuatu trjd, bkn brrti it tdk akn trjd. ~Sienna Brooks~

Humor cannot be programmed…it must be learned.

It's very hard — weirdly hard — to clear your mind of all that crap so that you can just sit down and write and find that place where you're just involved and enjoying the imaginary place you've discovered. All the other "problems" with writing are just puzzles, and they can be interesting to try to crack, even when it's frustrating.

How good it felt to be alone, stacking blocks. That's what came to him again, a kind of weight solidifying in his chest: how much he had loved to be alone - to be outside of his own life, a giant, sentient cloud looming over his imaginary city, hovering above it. There was a certain kind of blank omniscience that felt like his true self, at last.

I bet you guys can't name three things invented in Nebraska," Coke asked the family. "No, but I'm sure you can," his sister replied. "Kool-Aid, CliffsNotes, and Eskimo Pies!

A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatazoa attacking an ovum.

Do you think it's ready? I [Silenus, The Poet] asked. It's perfect... a masterpiece. Do you think it'll sell? I asked. No fucking way.

This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...

Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.

speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

I discovered what a mental stimulant physical labor could be; not mere physical labor, I should add, but absolutely spine-bending, lung-racking, gut-ripping, ligament-tearing, and ball-breaking physical labor. But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.

After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

I love being a poet. It's the goddamned words I can't stand.

For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.

the world often seemed more like a template for fiction than something that should be indulged in for its own sake.