Quotes About Creativity

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Si las mujeres hubiesen escrito los libros, estoy segura de que lo habrían hecho de otra forma, porque ellas saben que se las acusa en falso.]

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

Anton Webern moved composition to the brink of silence.

Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.

You have to work [...] and rely to a certain degree on the limitation of things, often really good things are happening. Even if you had another possibility it wouldn't be better, but nonetheless you experience this limitation as a barrier. But I always think that any limitation makes your life easier.

In the end, with this combination of frustration, resistance and enthusiasm, I hope I will have gained a little more soul.

He had essentially created the new genre of string trio in 1788 with the Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563.

Habíamos perdido nuestras capacidades físicas y morales de imaginar la libertad.

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive you will be able to design a house together with your family a garden for your children places where you can work beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.

Good prose is solitary work.

Art is long and life is short.

A work of art doesn't need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people's lives.

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

A writer who can't use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

Perhaps it was a flaw inherent in the inventive mind to have vision but not foresight. Was it that so much concentration went into developing the idea that they could not see beyond it? Or was it an inhibition of the urge to see beyond that allowed them to develop ideas before they could be dismissed as folly?