Quotes About Creativity

if you act (and dress) as if you have a fascinating inner life, you may soon find that you actually do—and that you feel more balanced as a result.

selfishness brings with it a surprising power of invention, it tends to create its own ontology.

I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired by books to trying to do things that inspired me—many of which I first encountered in stories. I went from wishing I were like a character in books to being a character in my books. I went from reading books to wrestling with them to writing them, all the while still learning from what I read. The

Jincy Willett, Sam Lipsyte, Flannery O'Connor, and George Saunders. Oh, and I love Paul Rudnick in The New Yorker.

There are never any rules, rights, or wrongs in imagining--- imagining just is.

Valoarea unei opere st? în fericirea pe care o naÅŸte, nu în preÅ£ul cu care e împopoÅ£onat?.

The creative hopeless.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring—and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

I assume that each person contains all the potentials that education wishes to cultivate: insight, capacity for observation and analysis, ability to appreciate, creative energy.

In a prose passage on a life in art—without explanation or elaboration, as if the idea had just popped into his head and he had to capture it before it fled—Thoreau drops this simple couplet: My life has been the poem I would have writ But I could not both live and utter it.

But our democratic institutions are not automated. They must be inhabited by citizens and citizen leaders who know how to hold conflict inwardly in a manner that converts it into creativity, allowing it to pull them open to new ideas, new courses of action, and each other. That kind of tension-holding is the work of the well-tempered heart: if democracy is to thrive as that restored prairie is thriving, our hearts and our institutions must work in concert.

It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.

Vous faites de la musique, Monsieur. Vous n'êtes pas musicien.

Le romancier est le seul menteur qui ne tait pas le fait qu'il ment.

Hétérogénéité naturelle, originaire, tel est le destin de l'art.

Quand je tire mon archet, c'est un petit morceau de mon cœur vivant que je déchire. Ce que je fais, ce n'est que la discipline d'une vie où aucun jour n'est férié. J'accomplis mon destin.

L']imagination garde en réserve une panoplie de sorties de secours.

Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary.

A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

I ink, therefore I ham.