Quotes About Creativity

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,In pleasing memory of all he stole.

Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride!They had no poet, and they died.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

She sins with poets through pure love of wit

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Authors are partial to their wit

So vast is art, so narrow human wit

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Love passed, the muse appeared, the weatherof mind got clarity newfound;now free, I once more weave togetheremotion, thought, and magic sound.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

The mind I love must have wild places: a tangled orchard where damsons drop in heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, a chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody has fathomed the depths of... and paths threaeded with flowers planted by the mind." Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnes

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

To keep a journal is to learn how to play. Deeply. Even when a page is recording hard, impossible things, if judgment is suspended, there's always a surprise or shift. Connections made over time suddenly link, opening and transforming.

The secret of keeping a journal is seeing it as a draft, a stepping-stone, a process.