Quotes About Creativity

The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.

This aggressive gendering of creativity renders it highly exclusionary, as reflected in Clara Schumann's belief that women should not even wish to compose. Equally it genders the sense of identification with the composer that was central to the classical star culture.

because Beethoven did not know where it was going to end up. That, of course, is the point of sketching.

Josef Albers devoted his life to extolling the merits of "minimal means for maximum effect.

Allowing customers a creative role can then build both confidence and energy. It can help initiate the right innovation efforts and keep them on the right track.

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative enquiry, for free creation.'1 Noam Chomsky

The French director Robert Bresson made the observation: "My job is not to find out what the public want and give it to them; my job is to make the public want what I want.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

A writer can never have complete command or mastery over what s/he writes. Neither can a reader.

T]o give the children a sense of magic. Nobody attends to this enough. They give them too much realism. They can see it all on the box, they can see frightful things there. But they're not being given a world to escape to … the world of the imagination. Children must have an escape line somewhere.

There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape.... The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

You need the art in order to love the life.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

loves it, in fact, as much as anything she has ever done. After the brain deadening years of child-rearing, she feels like she is waking up, feels as if her mind is stirring after a long sleep, spluttering and juddering into motion. She enjoys the hours spent in the red light of the darkroom too, thrills (more than she

I offer myself in paint instead. It's self flattering, but that's our prerogative as artists—to record ourselves the way we wish.

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

I decided i want to be a manga artist when i grow up. If you want to know why, it's because of you. I know that you hurt a lot inside. An I know that manga makes you happy. If i can make manga, maybe I can help people like you be happy.