Quotes About Creativity

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly' .

You must never steal another man's words. Ever.

To live is an art, we are all artists of our own lives.

You always have more brain cells than you're currently using.

Good writing is emotionally honest but does not get stuck in the emotion.

Accept that you will never be objective enough to judge your personal writing very well. During

When a writer takes on the task of exploring the world of the spirit, she has invited a process that will change her permanently. If she has done her work well, it will change her readers too.

If you have writer's block, dig into it. You are resisting something. Something is getting in the way of your creative work. Resistance always means something.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

tu dormi dragostea mea. sînt singur am inventat poezia si nu mai am inima

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

I call myself a wordkeeper, or a keeper of words. I enjoy words and looking at them on all sides… Words are magnificent… They form rhythms of living in meaningful prose… It is the force of my desire, my wish to make myself understood, that powers these words.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.