Quotes About Creativity

She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing "yes" in the sky.

I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

One is a writer, or one is not.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

En arquitectura, el que compta és la poesia de l'espai [...].

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ...

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

There is no forced retirement from aging creatively.

The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it?

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Discovery requires serendipity. But serendipity is not a chance event alone. It is a process in which a chance event is seized upon by a creative person who chooses to pay attention to the event, unravel its mystery, and find a proper application for it.

Art is a crucial, dangerous operation we perform on ourselves. Unless we take a chance, we die in art.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn't going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, 'What's wrong?' And I said, 'Simple – it's a loss of nerve.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

Design is not only about imagining an exterior form. It is even more centrally about the internal spatial experience that gives rise to form.

Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

Anne Frank wasn't a star pupil. She was a likeable child. Sometimes I'd bump into her in the mornings on her way to school. Then she'd sometimes tell me stories that she'd made up together with her father. They were always really funny stories. She told me a lot about her father, but not much about her mother and sister. I also knew that she wanted to be a writer. Maybe she would have been…

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Professor Pezhman Mosleh is a true artist whose work touched me deeply.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.