Quotes About Creativity

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Color possesses me—I don't have to pursue it…. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

The artist does not ascribe to the natural form of appearance the same convincing significance as the realists who are his critics. He does not feel so intimately bound to that reality, because he cannot see in the formal products of nature the essence of the creative process. He is more concerned with formative powers than with formal products.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern Kunst macht sichtbar.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.

One of the largest problems in getting a new design accepted by an established manufacturer is not just the 'not invented here' syndrome, but also the 'we don't have the tooling' syndrome. Why invent something new when you can simply modify what you have?

Now, here's a more intriguing game: imagine if Amazon, Toyota or Boeing tried to create Wikipedia. Without