Quotes About Creativity

I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself several times by these great teachers and reading wordless but eloquent advice for himself in their paintings.

Un artista anche nell'angoscia esprime tranquillità.

He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for perfection, and treading a path indicated by his own instincts, for reasons unknown, perchance, even to himself. Through some lofty and secret instinct he perceived the presence of a soul in every object.

Per lui non v'è soggetto spregevole nella natura. Nell'insignificante l'artista creatore è grande come nell'eccelso; la cosa più bassa per lui non è bassa, perché invisibilmente trapela in essa l'anima meravigliosa di chi crea, e la cosa bassa viene così sublimamente espressa, perché passa attraverso il purgatorio della sua anima.

Boredom would bring on dreaminess, dreaminess would stir the restless imagination, and the restless imagination might paint any picture and cause just about anything.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.

Music is the only media I will use to speak and connect to you.

Maybe law is closer related to art than most of us are aware of. But art and power do often stand in a strained relationship.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

Una volta mostrò a Chodasevic la poesia di un autore della generazione «minore» e gli domandò che metro fosse: un metro, secondo Rudnev, poco serio e addirittura ballabile. Era il trimetro giambico. Chodasevic, arrivato a casa, si sdraiò voltando la faccia verso la parete e disse: «Ecco da che gente dipendiamo».

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

Agatha didn't have an office of her own. She wrote her books wherever she found herself, so long as she had a table and a typewriter. Really, she didn't even think of herself as an author. Her primary occupation and identity was Married Lady.

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Watching movies today is a passive experience, and there is little demand on the viewer's imagination.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.