Quotes About Creativity

Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes roban.

Todos los niños nacen artistas. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista cuando creces.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. Picasso

Les bons artistes empruntent, les grands artistes volent.

Writers, of course, are obliged by our professions to spend much of our time going nowhere. Our creations come not when we're out in the world, gathering impressions, but when we're sitting still, turning those impressions into sentences. Our job, you could say, is to turn, through stillness, a life of movement into art. Sitting still is our workplace, sometimes our battlefield.

Et puis quoi, qu'importe la culture ? Quand il a écrit Hamlet, Molière avait-il lu Rostand ? Non.

Nous avons aussi appris que la plus grande mutilation que l'on puisse faire à l'homme, c'est de le priver de toute insécurité. L'insécurité nous a forcés à tirer de nous-mêmes des richesses que nous ne soupçonnions pas : imagination, créativité, résistance physique et psychique, victoire sur les privations de toutes sortes, les inconforts. (p.231)

On sait à peu près pourquoi une Å"uvre est mauvaise. Mais bien moins pourquoi elle est bonne.

Myslím, že nejsem ani básník, ani spisovatel, ani umÄ›lec. Ale ?lovÄ›k, který nenaÅ¡el jiný zp?sob, jak z?stat ve styku s životem, jak se udržet nad hladinou. Psal jsem, jako se chytáme záchranného pásu.

A good notion for a novel is far too precious to waste; it must be caught the moment it flashes into mental view, or it will escape to the brain of some other writer who really doesn't deserve it.

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

All true art stems from the depths of the unconscious mind.

The Zombie Master, a bachelor, had a good store of provisions but evidently survived mainly on those that required least effort to prepare: cheese balls, fried eggs from the friers that nested on the rafters, hot dogs from the dogwood that grew just inside the moat, and shrimp from the shrimp plants in the courtyard.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Ideas are the source of all things

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.