Quotes About Creativity

La imaginación te bloquea como un cerrojo a una puerta. Derrite ese hierro. (Rumi)

Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?' está muy bien. Pero qué hay con '¿De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?

I advise you to avoid the confused thinking which results from accepting second-hand ideas, and do some thinking for yourself.

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

No vale la pena agitar el frasco de las garrapatas. Esto es un juego, como todo lo que vale en la literatura. La palabra es una y la misma; la novela, digan lo que digan, viene de siempre y continúa. Rompiéndola, prevalece. En efecto, si no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, es porque lo viejo vale para la novedad.

La mejor literatura es la que está hecha de preguntas más que de respuestas, de intuiciones más que de certezas, de dudas más que de convicciones.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music. [Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990]

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

The perfection of performance has escalated to the extent that the music itself is threatened with relegation.

The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.

A kindergarten teacher watched her classroom of children while they were drawing. She occasionally walked around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working very hard, she asked her what the drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing heaven." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what heaven looks like." Without looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute.

Cred c? poetul e într-o perpetu? revela?ie pe care proza n-o aduce, ceva rezervat celor pu?ini.

Dar, uite, eu, dintre toate na?iunile, aleg imagi-na?iunea.

Nothing is the universe's great storehouse and power plant. Laws give the universe order and stability, while possibilities give the universe dynamic creativity and change. Through the balance of these, the universe maintains its eternal dynamic harmony that provides all beings with the environment in which they can realize their potential value.

Don't be confined by the self you have experienced, the self you know. Going beyond what you know and what you have experienced, challenge your brain with new questions and give it new tasks—then it will begin to manifest infinite creativity.

Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.