Quotes About Creativity

She dressed quickly in yellow drawstring pants and a lacy camisole over her bra, then pulled on a sheer blouse with dragons crawling down the shoulders. She slipped into sandals with butterflies, grabbed her messenger bag, and hurried downstairs.

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This is a work of fiction.

Lynne Reid Banks

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

How many performance artists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? I don't know. I left early.

We do not select the stories we write, we do not pick the voices. They take us by surprise and we surrender to them. They write us, they write in us, all over us, through us. They occupy us. We are, in a sense, puppets--to language, with language.

I ain't a street busker, I'm a microphone hustler, manipulating lyrics I'm a lyrical shuffler.

Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

I came across a quote from the book Art and Fear that says it best: "Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did."3 And the gap never stays silent.

The Abundance Mentality, on the other hand, flows out of a deep inner sense of personal worth and security. It is the paradigm that there is plenty out there and enough to spare for everybody. It results in sharing of prestige, of recognition, of profits, of decision making. It opens possibilities, options, alternatives, and creativity.2

But in the end, one-sided views make for pretty flat-looking works of art.

remember that there is an abundant need in this world for your contributions to the kingdom . . . your thoughts and words and artistic expressions . . . your exact brand of beautiful.

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

When asked, 'What did you want to say in this work?' he would answer, 'I've said what I've said.' This made sense in where everyone assumed music had a meaning - but where saying the wrong thing could get a person killed. -Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Originality is merely an illusion.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.

Every time a poet is about to write, every time the open their mouth to say something, they express their inner world and tell of their own feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, unless they are deliberately pursuing fantasies which contrast with their beliefs, opinions, thoughts, and the point of view.