Quotes About Creativity

El trabajo del novelista es hacer visible lo invisible con palabras.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

lo más liberador del arte es que le hace a uno dudar de que exista.

El mundo es un caleidoscopio. La lógica la pone el hombre. El supremo arte es el del azar.

Casi el único valor de las grandes obras maestras del ingenio humano consiste en haber provocado un libro de crítica o de comentario.

No, yo no soy un vago! Mi imaginación no descansa. Los vagos son ellos, los que dicen que trabajan y no hacen sino aturdirse y ahogar el pensamiento.

Leer, leer, leer, vivir la vida que otros soñaron. Leer, leer, leer, el alma olvida las cosas que pasaron. Se quedan las que quedan, las ficciones, las flores de la pluma, las solas, las humanas creaciones, el poso de la espuma. Leer, leer, leer; ¿seré lectura mañana también yo? ¿Seré mi creador, mi criatura, seré lo que pasó?

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

Escrever é usar as palavras que se guardaram: se tu falares demais, já não escreves, porque não te resta nada para dizer.

writing gives the mind a disciplined means of expression.

Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell it for, or what the critics will think of it, he won't be able to pursue original avenues. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion.

Consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.

The second reason creativity is so fascinating is that when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

While we cannot foresee the eventual results of creativity—of the attempt to impose our desires on reality, to become the main power that decides the destiny of every form of life on the planet—at least we can try to understand better what this force is and how it works. Because for better or for worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity. The result will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Creating meaning involves bringing order to the contents of the mind by integrating one's actions into a unified flow experience.

But consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.

After curiosity, this quality of concentrated attention is what creative individuals mention most often as having set them apart in college from their peers. Without this quality, they could not have sustained the hard work, the 'perspiration.' Curiosity and drive are in many ways the yin and the yang that need to be combined in order to achieve something new.

A person who rarely gets bored, who does not constantly need a favorable external environment to enjoy the moment, has passed the test for having achieved a creative life.