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Creativity Quotes
"It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it."
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"I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew."
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"One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future."
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"The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read."
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"I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abyss of uncertainty whenever the mind feels that some part of it has strayed beyond its own borders; when it, the seeker, is at once the dark region through which it must go seeking, where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not so far exist, to which it alone can give reality and substance, which it alone can bring into the light of day."
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"Writing every book, the writer must solve two problems: Can it be done? and, Can I do it? Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."
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"A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of his pretensions."
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"A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation."
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"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
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"I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career."
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"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."
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"Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe me. The human world is made up of stories, not people."
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"A writer is a world trapped in a person."
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"And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it. I choose to block out all the external (and internal) noise and distractions, and to come home again and again to creativity. Because without that source of wonder, I know that I am doomed. Without it, I will forever wander the world in a state of bottomless dissatisfaction-nothing but a howling ghost, trapped in a body made of slowly deteriorating meat."
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"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model."
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"Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style," Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face."
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"You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche."
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"Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction."
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"Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways."
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"He who doesn't fear his own imagination...is not worthy to envision."
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"My pen beats faster as I write with my heart."
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"My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
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"It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious."
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"As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity."
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"Art is the only answer to chaos and the void."
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"I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it."
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"Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone."
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"The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work your hands."
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"It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes."
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"When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write."
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"A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs to ideologies, he turns into a mouthpiece. He must hang on to his identity for dear life. In the end he must rely on his own judgment. It's the only way to survive as a writer and an artist."
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"You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."
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"What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write."
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"LABOUR is effort, while ART is effortless! What are you?"
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"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
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"Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking."
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"The amazing feeling that triggers the fountain of words that flow in my belly."
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"Be glad that I'm not a horror writer, some people write about it, other make images... but third just create it??? As for me, I have create it from horror up to nightmares!"
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"In soul of every newborn baby, words are waiting to be written."
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"And so too, in later years, when I began to write a book of my own, and the quality of some sentences seemed so inadequate that I could not make up my mind to go on with the undertaking. I would find the equivalent in Bergotte. But it was only then, when I read them in his pages, that I could enjoy them; when it was I myself who composed them, in my anxiety that they should exactly reproduce what I had perceived in my mind's eye, and in my fear of their not turning out "true to life," how could I find time to ask myself whether what I was writing was pleasing!"
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"Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation."
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"When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed."
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"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."
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"Your heart influences your art."
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"Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form."
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"Innovation is creativity with a job to do."
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"My collage opens my heart to endless joy. I am an artist!"
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"Take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning."
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"Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies."
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