Quotes About Creativity

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

Won't teach any more if I can help it; don't like it; and if I can get writing enough can do much better.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

You need some place to work in. That's the door half open.

No woman should be shame-faced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...

The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it's not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don't like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

You can think of a lot of things to make out of nothing, if you have to.

It's fun to take a pile of raw materials and make something out of them. The more demanding the work, the greater the satisfaction.

If you have a simply swell story in mind, you can forget the rules. A swell story takes care of itself.

Writing is hard work, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. It's hard on the eyes, the back, the fanny, the disposition and the nail polish.

There is the mundane, then there is the unthinkable – between the two, a chasm into which our imaginations tumble.

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does.

Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.

She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles.