Quotes About Creativity

I felt more and more ill at ease: people had often spoken to me about show business, media projects, and micro-sociology; but art, never, and I was filled with the presentiment of something novel, dangerous, and probably fatal, from a domain where there was — a bit like in love — almost nothing to win and almost everything to lose.

Un poète mort n'écrit plus. D'où l'importance de rester vivant.

Toute grande passion débouche sur l'infini. La littérature est, profondément, un art conceptuel; c'est même, à proprement parler, le seul. L'homme n'est décidément pas fait pour le bonheur.

You can work alone for years, it's actually the only way to work if truth be told; but there always comes a moment when you feel the need to show your work to the world, less to receive its judgement than to reassure yourself about the existence of this work, or even of your own existence, for in a social species individuality is little more than a short piece of fiction.

mais un auteur c'est avant tout un être humain, présent dans ses livres, qu'il écrive très bien ou très mal en définitive importe peu, l'essentiel est qu'il écrive et qu'il soit, effectivement, présent dans ses livres

quizás la verdadera naturaleza del arte fuese revelar mundos soñados, mundos imposibles, y que eso era algo a lo que yo nunca me había aproximado, algo de lo que jamás me había sentido capaz; comprendí también que la ironía, lo cómico, el humor debían morir, porque el mundo futuro era el mundo de la felicidad, y allí ya no habría sitio para ellos.

Ninguna cultura del espíritu, me recordó, había sido capaz de desarrollarse jamás en las sociedades con un alto índice de delincuencia, simplemente porque la seguridad física es la condición del pensamiento libre, y ninguna reflexión, ninguna poesía, ningún pensamiento mínimamente creativo ha logrado nacer nunca en un individuo que tenga que preocuparse de su supervivencia, que tenga que estar siempre en guardia.

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changes that are currently taking place in so many sectors. You have to ask yourself: "What are we going to do differently?" Doing nothing is not an option. You can't assume the same clients are going to come to you with the same requests or that you can go to them with the same offerings. You've got to change the way you operate and that requires a focus on innovation.

Le propre de la création est de rendre l'impossible non seulement réel, mais nécessaire.

Or si le "pirate" lèse matériellement l'auteur, moralement il lui donne la plus belle des couronnes.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don't waste time.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Genius is eternal patience.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection