Quotes About Creativity

My father wants to take your favorite song and play it better than you've ever heard. I want to take your least favorite song and play it so good that you like it.

seemed so epic. But I mentioned the challenges to Adrian's mother and she gave me some good advice. She said I shouldn't try to write a book, I should just sit down at my laptop and tell the story, one sentence at a time, using the same language I'd use to tell a friend over coffee. She said it was okay not to sound like J. K. Rowling. It was fine if I sounded like Mallory Quinn from Philadelphia.

I'll be remembered as the crazy babysitter who drew all over the walls, the one who believed Teddy's imaginary friend was real.

Gerhard Richter,

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.

W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

la mitad de una novela la pone el que la escribe, y la otra mitad el que la lee.

ayr?ca gerçek bir yazar asla yazarl??? b?rakmaz,yazmasa da b?rakmaz.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don't know and what doesn't happen.

Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.

What happened is the least of it. It's a novel, and once you've finished a novel, what happened in it is of little importance and soon forgotten. What matter are the possibilities and ideas that the novelist's imaginary plot communicates to us and infuses us with, a plot that we recall far more vividly than real events and to which we pay far more attention.

In fact, nothing can be imposed on a writer of fiction, who doesn't need to ask permission to introduce any real person or sequence of events he happens to know about into his fiction; if he decides to, then nothing and no one can prevent him. We aren't trustworthy people and some of us are heartless, though I don't think I am.