Quotes About Creativity

He entered the realm of art when he perceived the subtle use of the useless.

It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness. Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality in architecture.

Either God is the universe, or he is the flavour of creativity pervading all things.

That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

What do you plan to do that others cannot do better?

this was why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

Imagination is essentially creative; it is a bridge reconciling matter and spirit. Especially when it is done intensely and often. Then the image turns into a drop of matter, and joins the currents of life. Sometimes along the way something in it gets distorted and changes. Therefore, if they are strong enough, all human desires come true — but not always entirely as expected.

W jakim? sensie takie osoby jak ona, te, które w?adaj? piórem, bywaj? niebezpieczne. Narzuca si? od razu podejrzenie fa?szu - ?e taka osoba nie jest sob?, tylko okiem, które bezustannie patrzy, a to, co widzi, zamienia w zdania; w ten sposób okrawa rzeczywisto?? ze wszystkiego, co w niej najwa?niejsze, z niewyra?alno?ci.

Anyone who has ever tried to write a novel knows what an arduous task it is, undoubtedly one of the worst ways of occupying oneself. You have to remain within yourself all the time, in solitary confinement. It's a controlled psychosis, an obsessive paranoia manacled to work, completely lacking in the feather pens and bustles and Venetian masks we would ordinarily associate with it, clothed instead in a butcher's apron and rubber boots, eviscerating knife in hand.

In a way, people like her, who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind - that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality - its inexpressibility.

Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskona?o?? form nieprecyzyjnych.

In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.

people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind—that such a Person is not him- or herself, but

Imagining is a bridge reconciling matter and spirit. Especially when it is done intensely and often. Then the image turns into a drop of matter, and joins the currents of life.

D. zaczyna? cokolwiek widzie?, gdy siada? przed ekranem swojego komputera. Mia? wtedy przed sob? porz?dek i niesko?czon? harmoni?, prostot? dróg, które prowadz? do celu, jasno?? wyborów, ogromny potencja? my?li. Zaraz za tym do?wiadcza? spokoju, jaki bierze si? ze ?wiadomo?ci bycia wolnym. W pewnych granicach. Ale czy mo?na mówi? o jakichkolwiek granicach, kiedy tworzy si? ?wiaty?

By my final years at primary school I had realised that literature was more than just an ordinary pleasure. I could tell that reading opened entirely different worlds before me...

But I know that writing on bags is something people do only out of anxiety and uncertainty. Neither defeat nor the greatest success is conducive to writing.

Imagining is essentially creative; it is a bridge reconciling matter and spirit.

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

One writer excels at a plan or a title page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.

The man I spoke of as coming two hundred years later is Leonardo da Vinci. True