Quotes About Creativity

Our social existence, like an artist's studio, is filled with abandoned sketches.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

Les grands littérateurs n'ont jamais fait qu'une seule oeuvre.

An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.

What is utterly detestable is the Victor Hugo of the last stage, the Légende des Siècles, I forget all their names. But in the Feuilles d'Automne, the Chants du Crépuscule, there's a great deal that's the work of a poet, a true poet! Even in the Contemplations,

Aunque se desborde, la literatura es siempre un orden.

Ciertos días yo amanecía llena de palabras

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

I'm completely on board with fashion as an expression of individuality, but T'Chia seemed to be expressing several individuals.

Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put it off and hunt for diversions. Why? Because the this that makes us the happiest is also tedious, hard and frustrating. Writing makes us crazy; not writing even crazier.

Cindy thought Godzilla was great. She liked him better than her ant farm. After all, there wasn't much you could do with pet ants except watch them work. We played with Godzilla all afternoon, and all the next day, too. Godzilla liked it when we made tunnels out of grocery bags.

side. When she tries to explain her passion for it he reminds her how Anthony Trollope wrote all his books after a hard day's work at the Post Office.

Design follows drama

Está pretendiendo que todo se repita en una historia imaginada no por usted sino por Bioy Casares.

Great chefs have three things in common: first, they accept and respect mother nature as a true artist; second, everything they do is an extension of them as a true person; and third, they give you insight into the world they were born into.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions — a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

It is Boden's third form of creativity that is the more mysterious and elusive, and that is transformational creativity. This describes those rare moments that are complete game changers. Every art form has these gear shifts. Think of Picasso and Cubism, Schoenberg and atonality, Joyce and modernism. They are like phase changes, when water suddenly goes from a liquid to a gas.

Much modern art is no longer about the appreciation of an aesthetic and skill by the likes of Rembrandt or Leonardo, but rather the interesting message and perspective that the artist is revealing about our relationship to our world.

Art does many things, but for me where art is at its best is in providing a window into the way another mind works.

Why do we as humans create art? Why is Richter's work regarded as art while a book of Dulux colour samples is not?

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on,' he wrote in describing his method, 'as long as something is said. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.