Quotes About Creativity

Provò una gioia dolcissima perché gli sembrò che quelle prime parole che aveva scritto avessero il sapore del pane e il profumo di un buon rossetto.

All has been done, each theme has been attack'd, And Authors' Heads are like a city sack'd!

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the work is bound to fail: we can indeed reject filling these gaps in a conscious way, but we cannot prevent our unconscious from finishing the work, according to its priorities and those of the era in which it was written.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

It's not a matter of painting life. It's a matter of giving life to painting.

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

Bien écrire le médiocre94 » : cette formule en forme d'oxymore concentre et condense tout son programme esthétique.

On est en effet dans un monde économique à l'envers : l'artiste ne peut triompher sur le terrain symbolique qu'en perdant sur le terrain économique (au moins à court terme), et inversement (au moins à long terme).

La définition la plus stricte et la plus restreinte de l'écrivain (etc.), que nous acceptons aujourd'hui comme allant de soi, est le produit d'une longue série d'exclusions ou d'excommunications visant à refuser l'existence en tant qu'écrivains dignes de ce nom à toutes sortes de producteurs qui pouvaient se vivre comme écrivains au nom d'une définition plus large et plus lâche de la profession.

On n'écrit pas ce qu'on veut, dit Flaubert. Et c'est vrai. Maxime [Du Camp] écrit ce qu'il veut, lui, ou à peu près. Mais ce n'est pas écrire110.

If censorship reigns there cannot be sincere flattery, and only small men are afraid of small writings.

People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because the author could always trump you with, 'I wrote it.'

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

That's how you continue your passion and find inspiration; getting new ideas, getting new looks and new visions. Those are ways to evolve and stay passionate.

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made 'Transangelic Exodus' because I guess we didn't feel so friendly and boyish anymore.

It is easy to be inspired by history when you're living in a part of it and allow that to seep into your writing: having said that, a minimalist room with no distractions is often better; the most exciting visions should already be in your head.

Sometimes, when you're on the streets, certain music inspires you, and then you have a vision. But, at the end of the day, it's a synthesis of visions, so you have to think, as a director, of a scene, or how to deliver a line, or how do this visually.

I was so young but started having these visions and impressions of the world.