Quotes About Creativity

Photographing a cake can be art.

Art is a staple, like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

Normal people do not create art.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.

If you talk about it, you probably won't write it

When you are a free and independent writer, without employer, without hours or deadlines, you have to play little games to force yourself into the actual writing. For me, one game is to announce...that I have finally decided on my next book, that I am ready to write it...to put my pride on the line.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.