Quotes About Creativity

That's how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something. You have a wish. You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.

For me, black and white is more realistic than colour. Black and white can be colourful, and colour can be very black and white.

By the age of twenty the distinctly Branwellian qualities would be developed from which he would never again shake himself free.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Now that we have run out of money we have to think.

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

for ambition stirs imagination nearly as much as imagination excites ambition.

Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.

We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. And for this Audacity is the only ticket.

Art is to beauty what honour is to honesty, an unnatural allotropic form.

imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

Nearly all the battles which are regarded as masterpieces of the military art, from which have been derived the foundation of states and the fame of commanders, have been battles of manœuvre in which very often the enemy has found himself defeated by some novel expedient or device, some queer, swift, unexpected thrust or stratagem. In many such battles the losses of the victors have been small.

One begins to see, for instance, that painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.

The most damnable thing in the world is a servile copyist!

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field

Las ciencias mecánicas ofrecen en tierra, en el aire, en las costas, posibilidades ilimitadas de novedad y de sorpresa, salidas de la forja o del laboratorio.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know....That is why I value that little phrase I don't know so highly. It's small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include spaces within us as well as the outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended...Poets, if they're genuine, must always keep repeating I don't know.

in painted quiet and concentration