Quotes About Creativity

Alice had a rare gift: she was a "nose." Her sense of smell was so acute that she could distinguish and memorize the slightest odor. She spent her days alone, bent over the long wooden table in her flat, blending different essences to obtain combinations that might one day become a perfume. Every month she made the rounds of the London perfume shops, offering them her new creations.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite. Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?

WILL is burning midnight oil- literally and metaphorically. His quill has already covered a dozen sheets. He is inspired.

What I'm saying is that we all hold, in our minds, the ability to create images that would break us in half.

The only reward you can ask from writing is the chance to keep doing it.

At the rate these illuminations appear, it will no doubt take me a long time to gather the material for even one single book. For my inspired double-- this phantom builder of sentences who maliciously impedes my work to dictate his clever discoveries-- always comes at those (infrequent) hours of his choosing, drafts (at best) three little pages, then goes away.

I long believed that one was born a writer, that it was enough to allow to ripen within oneself for an appropriate number of years this precious seed, and that then one day the first book would appear, as had earlier, at the appointed hour, the first tooth. 53

I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.

I don't believe in art. I believe in the artist.

Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.