Quotes About Creativity

Invece, nel mondo della fotografia, manca ancora il vostro sguardo, il vostro scoop. Siate dunque voi stessi, anima e corpo. Specializzatevi su un tema senza preoccuparvi di sapere se funzionerà o meno.

Tutti i soggetti sono appassionanti a condizione di viverli con passione.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000)

La poésie est l'arme du pauvre.

When I grow up, I am going to write for children — and grownups that haven't grown up too much — all the earth-songs I now do hear.

The writer who shuts himself up in a room and first goes on a journey inside himself will, over the years, discover literature's eternal rule: he must have the artistry to tell his own stories as if they were other people's stories, and to tell other people's stories as if they were his own, for this is what literature is.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

adaptive thinking, being flexible, and encouraging innovation.

i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant.

Le opere postume hanno lo squisito vantaggio di risparmiarti le scemenze o le perfidie di coloro che senza saper scrivere e neanche concepire un romanzo pretendono di giudicare anzi bistrattare chi lo concepisce e lo scrive.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I like the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.