Quotes About Creativity

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.

May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

I've always found D Minor to be the sad key.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

La vie sert à faire des opéras-comiques.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain.

Worrying about originality is like worrying about the best place to hang your wall phone.

Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.

Den hatte der Major jetzt freilich ganz vergessen, er berief sich nicht auf ihn, er nannte nicht innerlich seinen Namen, er zitierte den René nicht, wie wir den Anton Kuh in einer Fußnote. Würden alle Urheber-Rechts-Verletzungen im Leben ebenso verfolgt wie in der Literatur, der Welt gesamtes Gerichtswesen reichte nicht aus, um die Prozesse abzuwickeln, die ständig reziproken Anleihe-Verhältnisse auf dem Markt unserer Vorstellungen zu klären.

Táblákat kellene állítani a kortárs regények elé: ideköltözni tilos, letelepedni tilos, itt berendezkedni tilos. Aki szilárd talajt akar a lába alá, annak sokkal több kell, mint amit az irodalom és m?vészet valaha is nyújthat.

One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist.

I seldom have a firm plot or any idea at all about the ending. But there is a clear, almost mathematically conceptual idea that determines length--the length or brevity of a literary work being comparable to the size of the frame needed by a picture.

When I am asked how or why I wrote this or that, I always find myself quite embarrassed. I would gladly furnish not merely the questioner, but myself as well, with an exhaustive answer, but can never do so. I cannot recreate the context in its entirety, yet I wish that I could, so that at least the literature I myself make might be made slightly less of a mysterious process than bridge-building and bread-baking.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Don't send a poet to London.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.