Quotes About Creativity

For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways.

Ohne die Träume würden wir gewiss früher alt.

Though the heroes and their fates are inventions, yet the spirit in which they are composed is true and natural.

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.

Hätten wir auch eine Phantastik wie eine Logik, so wäre die Erfindungskunst – erfunden. Zur Phantastik gehört auch die Ästhetik gewissermaßen wie die Vernunftlehre zur Logik.

One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.

Ra?iunea ?i fantezia sunt religie - ra?iunea ?i inteligen?a, ?tiin??.

Ra?iunea practic? este fantezie creatoare pur?.

I was a happy young woman and I just happened to write poetry. I wasn't trying to get anywhere, I was where I wanted to be..." Rest In love Queen!!

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

Stories are wonderful, enjoyable, and scrumptious things. In the old days, they were served on thin plates called pages. You ate them with your eyes. And they didn't go down to your tummy, like normal food. No, they went into a dream machine inside your head.

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.