Quotes About Creativity

Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Il fatto è che i cretini, e ancor più i fanatici, son tanti; godono di una così buona salute non mentale che permette loro di passare da un fanatismo all'altro con perfetta coerenza, sostanzialmente restando immobili nell'eterno fascismo italico.

La Sicilia è tutta una dimensione fantastica: e come ci si può star dentro senza fantasia?

La scienza, come la poesia, si sa che sta ad un passo dalla follia [...]

La Sicilia è tutta una fantastica dimensione: e come ci si può star dentro senza fantasia?

nulla è più delizioso per uno scrittore del divagare, dell'estravagare: lo scrivere sembra diventare pura, trasparente esistenza - notiamo di quanto profitto siano per la letteratura i miti e le cronache dei gemelli, dei sosia, delle usurpazioni e/o contestazioni di identità, delle sostituzioni notturne e degli sdoppiamenti o dimezzamenti tipo Jekyll-Hyde.

Far from Italy, far from my native TarentumI lie; and this is the worst of it—worse than death.An exile's life is no life. But the Muses loved me.For my suffering they gave me a honeyed gift:My name survives me. Thanks to the sweet MusesLeonidas will echo throughout all time.

Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

If you are in a condition of inferiority, I think it affects you very much creatively. You have incredible visions but you might be too bashful to show them. Your creativity becomes inhibited. I've always found women as individuals as stupid or as intelligent as men. I've never had any reason to find them otherwise.

El arte es una magia que hace que las horas se desvanezcan e incluso que los días se disuelvan en segundos.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear lady?

L'immaginazione è la prima fonte della felicità umana.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.

The hand of an artist should rescue you Ã¢â'¬â€œ you should not be submerged like all the rest of us and forever, without leaving a trace of your existence behind

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

Imagination comes of not having things.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.