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Quotes About Creativity

Writing is the enjoyable part of writing. It's all the rest that drives you mad.
~ Clifford Thurlow
A writer is someone who writes every day and is unhappy if he doesn't.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Unless you must write a book, you mustn't.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Artists often feel sad without knowing why.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Writing is a virus once caught never to be cured.
~ Clifford Thurlow
A teacher can't teach you how to write. What a teacher can do is show a writer how not to write.
~ Clifford Thurlow
To use a sculptural metaphor, the great novel, essay, biography is imprisoned inside a block of marble and the writer must chip away with a tiny chisel until the exquisite appears
~ Clifford Thurlow
Through the years, people of the world (young and old) build castles in the sands. Grains of different styles, shapes and sizes representing a common notion... beauty and harmony.
~ Unknown
We do not stop dreaming until we cease believing in the power of imagination.
~ Unknown
You are a poet in your own right. Just free your mind and unleash the goodness in your heart to prove the hallmark of human talent and purpose.
~ Unknown
Sometime ago, a group of school children just added a new logo and picture of their favorite cartoon character online. They did it again... and again. It is because of the line that reads, Upload new image/photo.
~ Unknown
The essence of writing is enkindled by the heart and soul of the thinker.
~ Unknown
In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
~ Clifton Fadiman
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Don't be afraid of poetry.
~ Clifton Fadiman
The movement Of the body is Where poetry Begins
~ Clint Catalyst
Like most pictures that I've done, I've had no idea whether anyone would ever want to see 'em. But I figured, I'd like to see it.
~ Clint Eastwood
Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
~ Clint Eastwood
If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams.
~ Clive Barker
That which is imagined can never be lost.
~ Clive Barker
I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.
~ Clive Bell
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
~ Clive James
Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.
~ Clive James