Quotes About Creativity

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

It was difficult for me to write, and not just because my hands were rough and my fingers so permanently bent around the handle of a pick and axe that unbending them was unbelievably difficult. I managed to wrap a thick rag around pen and pencil to give them the thickness of a pick or shovel handle.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

SNOVNO VASPITANJE Ska?em s krova na krov I ogromnom mrežom za leptire Lovim tehnokrate birokrate Gnoseokrate Najlepše primerke stavljam U staklenke sa alkoholom I na ceduljama im ispisujem U?ena imena Pokazujem ih ?acima na ?asu Zajedno sa dinosaurima Gigantosaurima tiranosaurima Koji poslušno silaze Sa zidova u?ionice I ti sladiš moj san Vidim smeje ti se levo uvo Izaziva me jedna mirna bubica Moj poznanik nastavnik prirodopisa

Diaghilev thinks I have died for the art. I am more alive than ever.

Voglio danzare, disegnare, suonare il pianoforte, scrivere versi, io voglio amare tutti. Questo è lo scopo della mia vita.

Vaslav Nijinsky

Great thoughts come from the heart

She says that you were all molded into being replicas of one another. She says the only way out was to be extraordinary.

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

I love design.

Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left...

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

It is interesting that we call something good a "dream," but being called a "dreamer" is somewhat of a putdown. Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world. If you are a secret dreamer, it's your time to announce yourself.

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside. But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls. It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room. That's when the stories can move in. They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.

Then you already know what it's like to think in a different way about the same thing. Because that's all a new language is—a slightly different way of thinking and looking at the same world. It's like putting on multi-colored sunglasses. It enriches your thought processes and blows up your imagination like a balloon. And it gives you the mysterious power to express yourself to others who normally might not be able to understand you.

Because that's all a new language is—a slightly different way of thinking and looking at the same world. It's like putting on multi-colored sunglasses. It enriches your thought processes and blows up your imagination like a balloon. And it gives you the mysterious power to express yourself to others who normally might not be able to understand you.