Quotes About Creativity

Thomas Mann that "a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Ten million blank journals are sold annually in stationery stores alone.

Bir ressam için en ideal olan?, Pantheon'un *oculus'ü gibidir. Yüksekten gelen ???k modelin yüzüne, hatta o anlams?z çirkin yüze bile, tatl? bir hava, sanatç?n?n istedi?i biçimde i?leyece?i bir tür güzellik katacakt?r... *oculus: (Latince) Mercek, cam.

El zekan?n bir aletidir yaln?zca. Zeka olmazsa hiçbir ?ey yap?lm?? olmaz.

Ama Kardinal Hazretleri, izin verirseniz söyleyeyim. Biz, öteki ressamlar ellerimizle konu?uruz... - Olmad?, diyerek araya girdi yeniden Arezzo Piskoposu, kafayla konu?uyorsunuz... Alg? yoksa, dü?ünce de yoktur, görüntü de yok. Hatta ayn? ?ekilde, ?iir, konu?an resimdir... Resimse, Senyör Orazio, sessiz ?iirdir.

Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.

Letter writing is a habit that allows us to explore new trails all our lives. Each day is a fresh new adventure when we regularly send and receive letters.

To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived—to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that—this doubtless is the right way to live. HENRY JAMES T

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. GOETHE

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

I don't like the idea of people who don't sing to themselves when they're all alone. They're too sober for me. At least hum-- anybody can do that.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

One pays a price for innovation, and innovators, knowing this, are hardly conciliators: books are not written specifically to please others; they are written, like it or not, to please oneself.

Every hour that teachers spend preparing kids to succeed on standardized tests, even if that investment pays off, is an hour not spent helping kids to become critical, curious, creative thinkers.)

if, like Charles Silberman, we think school "should prepare people not just to earn a living but to live a life—a creative, humane, and sensitive life,"22 then children's attitudes toward learning are at least as important as how well they perform at any given task.

Casas enfiladas, casas enfiladas, casas enfiladas, Cuadrados, cuadrados, cuadrados, casas enfiladas. Las gentes ya tienen el alma cuadrada, ideas en fila y angula en la espalda; yo mismo he vertido ayer una lagrima, Dios mio, cuadrada.

La vi escrita al tramonto, indescifrable. Un pentagrama sobre el campo alzado: y era un millar de pájaros, cubriendo de negras notas los tirantes hilos. Se agrupaban en llaves y en acordes en el papiro rosa de la tarde; (y a un golpe de batuta abandonaban la partitura locos de alegría.

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.