Quotes About Creativity

There is in all expression a spontaneity which will not take orders, not even those which I would like to give to myself.

Anyone who thinks about the matter finds it astonishing that very often a good painter can also make good drawings or good sculpture. Since neither the means of expression nor the creative gestures are comparable, this fact is proof that there is a system of equivalences, a Logos of lines, of lighting, of colors, of reliefs, of masses—a conceptless presentation of universal Being.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy ' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

la fantasía, ¿sabes?, es la única cualidad humana que no está sujeta a las miserias de la realidad.

Mauricio Salles Vasconcelos

Breakthroughs occur not when someone works within the established paradigm but when assumptions are abandoned, rules are ignored, and creativity runs amok

Authors with a mortgage never get writer's block. –

Fiction is largely the process of writers solving problems of their own creation.

And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's as creepy as hell. Thank you for seeking out stories, the kind that take place in your brain.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?)

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.