Quotes About Creativity

Well, it's true. If she ever had an original thought it would die of loneliness.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers." Man Ray

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting. –--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

Niki recalled Nooran working on the embroidery as she scribbled or scrawled, both seated atop her bed. Faced with the prospect of IIMC, what would Nooran do? When the world darkened, Nooran turned to the bagh. When it dazzled, she embroidered some more. Whatever it threw at her, she seized it and wrote her own narrative.

Sex essence is the source of all energy available for creative and thinking processes (shien).

The most beautiful images are often the least honest.

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

NEOLOGISMO Beijo pouco, falo menos ainda. Mas invento palavras Que traduzem a ternura mais funda E mais cotidiana. Inventei, por exemplo, o verbo teadorar. Intransitivo: Teadoro, Teodora.

Eu faço versos como quem morre.

Nada es tan desconsolador, para un libro, como morir virgen. A mí, casi me sucedió.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Y ella no tiene frío? —No, no se acuerda del frío, está como en otro mundo, ensimismada dibujando a la pantera. —Si está ensimismada no está en otro mundo. Ésa es una contradicción. —Sí, es cierto, ella está ensimismada, metida en el mundo que tiene adentro de ella misma, y que apenas si lo está empezando a descubrir.

La musica doveva avere il volto di una donna da seddure. Chiudevo gli occhi per immaginarla, per dare colore ai suoi capelli e ai suoi occhi, ma compresi che finché dal mio sax fossero usciti soltanto ragli d' asino, quella ragazza non sarebbe mai esistita.

La cultura, señores! Y dentro de ella, la más sublime de las artes. La poesía.

The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science; it is designed to enable a socialist culture to thrive in our land.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.