Quotes About Creativity

I love to knit. There's a comfort to it that I can't entirely explain. The repetition of weaving the yarn around the needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order and I found it in knitting.

Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.

Color is a feeling for me. I work by feeling! —Tina, Freia Handpaint Yarns

The repetition of weaving the yarn around a needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting.

one of the saddest things in life is to die with the music still inside us. There's tremendous talent in Peter that has been long denied. When I knew him, he was one of the most promising artists in college. His work was praised by staff and students alike. His potential was breathtaking.

You don't have to know how to sing. It's feeling as though you want to that makes the day worthwhile." —Coleman Cox

Remember that you need two socks. How to achieve this feat? Knit both at the same time, and release the idea that they need to be identical!

People who say they don't have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!" —Sally Melville

When you put beads in your knitting, you are really putting bits of light in your knitting. The gleam and color-play of beads add a whole other dimension that could be demure or outrageous, as you please. Your choice of beads and yarn uniquely expresses your personality. —Sivia Harding, designer and teacher

The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations." —Karen Alfke, "Unpattern" designer and knitting instructor LYDIA HOFFMAN

knitters use both hands

The only thing that equals my joy in knitting is the pleasure of reading!

will you teach me how to knit?

I do love a good yarn, fiction and fiber. The only thing that equals my joy in knitting is the pleasure of reading!" —Priscilla

Debbie Macomber

Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.

If more people knitted and crocheted, the world would see fewer wars and a whole lot less road rage.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by.

When people give one star ratings, they seem to be trying to make a point. In my opinion, one star ratings don't make a constructive point. They are just unfair put downs to creativity.

We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!

Books were smarter than me and words inspired me. I still think that Diane Ackerman's poem challenged me to build a little house in the first place - to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, because: given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?

The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get your bearings.

What do you not have to do in order to produce a new sound?