Quotes About Creativity

It doesn't matter if anyone else ever sees my pictures or not. They are for me, part of who I am and how I express my interpretation of what I see in this world.

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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don't like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal . My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry — with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.

It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, genetaring and degenerating itself.

Every artist who creates intense depictions of his own problems, which he believes not only to be important to him, but also to others, needs to use himself.

I have always felt lonely in the world out there. That is why I escaped into filmmaking even though the feeling of community is an illusion.

When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his personal response to his approaching death.

I'm no pessimist. I don't loathe art because I couldn't live without devoting all my time to it. I love it as the only end of my life. Everything I do connected with it gives me intense pleasure. But still, I don't see why the whole world should be taken up with art, demand its credentials, and on that subject give free rein to its own stupidity. Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.' -Picasso

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Considering all of the above, Sagan seems not only to have been an astronomer and a fiction writer, but also something of an intuitive "seer.

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To a large extent, creativity is self-generated in areas of the mind beyond or beneath the individual's willful, conscious control. All he can do is discipline his consciousness to accommodate the needs of the creative process.

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

To be attached to one's dreams and yet to advocate reality constituted no contradiction in Chagall's eyes.

and I am quite sure that they are worth being painted.

To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.

This isn't business. This is poetry.

The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.

Voli pindarici! Voli pindarici! Ma per nulla non si diedero l'ali alle rondini, il guizzo al baleno, ed alla mente umana la sublime istantaneità del pensiero.

Forgive the dreamer Forgive the dream

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.