Quotes About Creativity

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them ... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

You are an artist," she said. "But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than physical and yet pervading the restlessness of his body, was a burden to him until he could find the path for its release.

I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!

many a woman would have let her mind lie idle while she worked in the fields, but I have ever seen this difference between you and other women, that your mind cannot be idle, and I say I never know what is coming out of you. And so I never tire of you, old woman.

It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.

Nunca has pensado escribir?, tú hablas en poesía. ¿Lo sabes?

Nunca has pensado escribir?, tú hablas en poesía. ¿Lo sabes? A casi todas las locas enamoradas les florece la voz.

Puede ser princesa, que su canto sea poesía pura, como los pájaros que tampoco han ido a la universidad.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Vivir es una forma de no estar seguro, de no saber lo que vendrá después ni en qué forma. En el momento en que sepamos cómo, empezaremos a morir un poco. Los artistas nunca sabemos nada del todo. Suponemos. Podemos estar equivocados, pero aun así nos lanzamos de un salto a la oscuridad una y otra vez. AGNES DE MILLE

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

Please use anger for something positive like hurting people that deserve it or writing jokes.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.