Quotes About Creativity

Some people lusted after cars, which had never made sense to me. For me, bookshelves could inspire whole spontaneous sonnets, so maybe it was an each to her own scenario.

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?

All the best art comes from the broken places,

And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point of depression.

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.

So where should we go at it?' asked Bastian. 'Anywhere you want me,' I murmured, dreamily. 'Pardon?' 'Anywhere,' I said. 'Why don't we start in a familiar place, so we are not nervous our first time?' I have to remind myself that this is real, and not part of the daydream. He's talking about the Storytelling Project. Not sex.

Happy entries in my journal do not exist. Or if they do, they end abruptly with scenes and sentences left unfinished because they are too gushy in a way that is disturbing and sick and foreign.

Squeenk! Ribbet!

If you were a girl who loved above all to read and write and who could not imagine an adulthood in which these activities did not hold a central place, you probably knew even before puberty that you were headed for conflict.

A beautiful idea is a beautiful door; it invites you to enter inside!

A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivaled heights.

A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!