Quotes About Creativity

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

If my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen - small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss.

Mercedes Lackey,

Poetry is an art of economy.

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid – but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.' oscar wilde

he had impressed her as a man delightfully open to suggestion, with an imagination large enough to find time, even in the depths of despair, for the important things in life, those accidents without which our existence was little more than a schedule of dry routines.

Art does not come from commandments, or follow logic or the consensus opinion of scientific experts, but springs fresh every time from stone and wood and green sprig of earth. It is the stuff that makes good gardeners, hunters, farmers, builders, carpenters, poets, bards, sculptors, painters, drawers, healers, physicians, and herbalists.

Isak Dinesen wrote, "There is no mystery in art. Do the things you can see, they will show you what you cannot see." In other words, there is mystery in art, but one of the ways it is conjured occurs when an author lavishes narrative attention on the visible.

What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise.

Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said American Vogue could borrow the dress only if they flew it to New York and back, in its own seat, with an escort. It was a fuck-you and they took it, and the dress was shot by Richard Avedon. "Fashion people haven't got any brains," McQueen said.

One can paint a moment or time of day. Even the feeling of a moment. It is what Impressionism is--the painting of a moment. But how does one paint movement itself? Paint time passing? [Édouard Manet]

I believe he meant that my little ink sketch was a good approximation of reality--which is exactly how we appraise art when we are young. We want our horses to look like living beings, a loaf of bread to look edible, and a woman's dress to look like satin. We want a painting or a sketch of a thing to replicate it faithfully. The closer a work of art is to reality, the greater the power of the artist. All of that is perfectly acceptable and right--in children. [Édouard Manet]

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

The father of the tower was Eiffel—but the idea and the math were me.

I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.

Expression is like a step taken in the fog--no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.

Perhaps it is essential to men to attain greatness in their works only when they do not look for it too hard.

One does not write solely for oneself, or solely for truth, but not simply for others either. One writes. That is all, and in doing so one aims at all of that at once. Those who write imply that all of this can happen in the same movement.

Writers don't have the impression that they are creating or inventing because they are, in effect, in the process of deciphering the hieroglyphics of their landscape.

One reason why the painter takes up his brush is that in one sense the art of painting still remains to be created...Painting is always something to be created.

What one too deliberately seeks, he does not find; and he who on the contrary has in his meditative life known how to tap its spontaneous source never lacks for ideas and values.