Quotes About Creativity

O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed!

Skilled verse is the work of a profound skeptic.

In the eyes of those who anxiously seek perfection, a work is never truly completed—a word that for them has no sense—but abandoned.

En iyi yap?t, gizini uzun süre saklayand?r. Uzun süre bir gizi oldu?u bile anla??lmaz.

J'ai toujours fait mes vers en m'observant les faire.

The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.

Everything changes but the avant-garde

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.

Verbeelding is een uitstekend vertrekpunt voor verandering.

De notities van Louise Bourgeois tonen hoe ze haar angsten en genot probeerde te verwoorden en vorm te geven in de praktijk van haar kunst. Ik twijfel er geen ogenblik aan dat ze daarmee haar leven leefbaarder gemaakt heeft. Vermoedelijk wist Louise niet dat zij met deze constante observatie van haarzelf, haar lichaam en haar verhouding met anderen aan zelfzorg deed.

Ce n'était ni le Diable ni le bon Dieu, c'était Arthur Rimbaud, c'est-à-dire un très grand poète.

Far from being opposed to the truth, fiction is only its by-product.

Today's boards don't need chief marketing officers who have creative flair but no financial discipline.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme.

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

Don't let self-imposed, unnecessary restrictions limit your thinking. Whenever you encounter a problem, it is worth spending a minute (or more) asking the question: 'Am I imposing rules that I don't need to? Can I change or bend the rules to my advantage?

I can't discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. You can't discover that in the raw. ~ Leonard Cohen

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.