Quotes About Creativity

El gran arte literario está en presentar con plenitud plástica lo inefable.

A limited population produces fewer ordinary intelligences than a numerous population, but it can produce an equal or greater number of talents. Great demographic densities are the breeding grounds of mediocrity.

Il n'est point de serpent, ni de monstre odieux, Qui, par l'art imité, ne puisse plaire aux yeux ; D'un pinceau délicat l'artifice agréable Du plus affreux objet fait un objet aimable. Ainsi, pour nous charmer, la Tragédie en pleurs D'Œdipe tout sanglant fit parler les douleurs, D'Oreste parricide exprima les alarmes, Et, pour nous divertir, nous arracha des larmes.

Hâtez-vous lentement, sans perdre courage. Vingt fois sur le métier, remettez votre ouvrage. Polissez-le sans cesse et le repolissez. Ajoutez quelquefois et souvent effacez.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idées, comme on n'est pas un bon général pour avoir beaucoup de soldats.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.

Trapped by reality, freed by imagination.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Participate in fantasy. Be curious!

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges and absorbs the impact.

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love...

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.