Quotes About Creativity

I think you've still got lightning in you.

But why is laughter so creative? It reacts to contradiction with delight is why, thus opening the road to new discoveries.

but she never knew what it was like to walk away from the thing she had most wanted. Years later she would say, Photography allowed me to make the world and be in the world.

Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally found her.

If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.

Read The Story of O. Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

Everyone at Disney worked long hours. But nobody worked harder than Walt. He drove himself to the point of collapse. He was exhausted and more moody than ever.

Art is long, life is short.

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

Lo que no está en mi corazón, no lo escribirá mi pluma.

Here I am, with my book and my pencil - the latter not pointed so well as I could wish, but when Christians take leave of their senses, who is to expect that pencils will keep their points?

The little children of my brain may be weakly enough, and may be sadly in want of a helping hand to aid them in their first attempts at walking on the stage of this great world; but, at any rate, they are not borrowed children.

I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects, like me?

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife

Nothing is impossible to gods and authors.

By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves of our past.

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give significant form to the chaos of experience?

Civilization is always older than we think; and under whatever sod we tread are the bones of men and women who also worked and loved, wrote songs and made beautiful things, but whose names and very being have been lost in the careless flow of time.

Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Nothing is lost in history: sooner or later every creative idea finds opportunity and development, and adds its color to the flame of life.

Ars longa, vita brevis—art is long and time is fleeting: this is the tragedy of every great soul.

The lazy will always attribute genius to some 'inspiration' that comes for mere waiting.

Let ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them.

Voltaire might say, "I have no scepter, but I have a pen.