Quotes About Creativity

If I was an artist, you would be my picture! If I was a poet, you would be my inspiration! If I was a river, you would be my ocean! If I was a Doctor, you would be my permanent patient! If I was an author, you would be my story!

It is through beauty that our heart is inspired to express love.

Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to its own devices and creates you to be much more than reality would ever allow.

We lead by example, we love by heart, we write by soul, we play by ear. We are Artists.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Worry is a misuse of imagination. ~Dan Zadra

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

Today it's nice to be able to entertain odd thoughts without having to marry them all. Thank God. I can think whatever the hell I want. Entertaining odd thoughts won't make you crazy. Refusing to entertain odd thoughts won't make you well.

At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, "It was enough to have been a unicorn." What he meant was that he got to do art. It was magic to him that his hands and mind got to make wonderful things, that he didn't have to be just another goat or horse.

Socrates should have written comics.

Ideas," Hagen said, "are shit. It's knowing what to do with an idea that matters.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

A.P. had to go out into those Appalachian hills and scare up twenty or thirty new songs a year to feed the hungry maws of their record company and their fans.

Ich habe erzählt, wie ich mit Timanris die Nacht in meinem Malzimmer verbrachte. Möchtest du wissen, was wir alles getan haben - außer zu malen. Und wie oft, alter Alb?" - Sinthoras

I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!

Ich erinnere mich sehr gut, wie wenig Phantasie die meisten Menschen besaßen. Wahrscheinlich war das ein Glück für sie. Phantasie macht den Menschen überempfindlich, verletzbar und ausgeliefert. Vielleicht ist sie überhaupt eine Entartungserscheinung. Ich habe den Phantasielosen ihren Mangel nie angekreidet, manchmal habe ich sie sogar um ihn beneidet. Sie hatten ein leichteres und angenehmeres Leben als die anderen.

Artwork is not synonymous to intention. It is peculiar that although almost everybody says artworks don't give answers, they seem to be sure that a good work asks questions. It sounds like the other side of the same coin to me.

I like to read about art. It also stimulates me to go and do something totally different in the middle of a sentence, or afterwards, like picking up a paintbrush for example. It is only that due to the overload of art historians, artists and other artrelated people, we are flooded by an overload of insipid writings, to such an extent that when you get to the right thing, you are too tired to read it.

I can see why many visual artists dislike words in artworks. They feel that words dirty the clear water that has to reflect the sky. It disturbs the pleasure of the silent image, the freedom from history, the beauty of nameless forms. (...) I know that neither images nor words, can escape the drunkenness and longing caused by the turning of the world. Words and images drink the same wine. There is no purity to protect.

Words and images drink the same wine. There is no purity to protect.

Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55

many high-functioning multiples are gifted writers and artists, who, as they heal, are able to find an aesthetic outlet for the sealed-off rage and pain they have not allowed themselves to feel.