Quotes About Creativity

Theory is intermodal, theory is the concept of art.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

Creative activity at the grassroots is the basic factor of the new public life. Let the workers set up workers' control at their factories. Let them supply the villages with manufactures in exchange for grain […] Socialism cannot be decreed from above. Its spirit rejects the mechanical bureaucratic approach: living creative socialism is the product of the masses themselves.

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss.

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

All literature in some degree, exists to reveal a more powerful and passionate, a more divine world than ours.

And cried, 'Before I am old I shall have written him one Poem maybe as cold And passionate as the dawn.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything.

Blue ocean strategy is not about being first to market. Rather it's about being first to get it right by linking innovation to value.

Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.