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Creativity Quotes
"Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules."
"Because I came to seeThat I should never have been a first-rate potter.I didn't have it in me. It's strange, isn't it, That a man should have a consuming passion To do something for which he lacks the capacity? Could a man be said to have a vocation To be a second-rate potter? To be, at best,A competent copier, possessed by the cravingTo create, when one is wholly uncreative?I don't think so. For I came to see, That I had always known, at the secret moments,That I didn't have it in me. There are occasionsWhen I am transported- a different person,Transfigured in the vision of some marvellous creation,And I feel what the man must have felt when he made it.But nothing I made ever gave me that contentment-That state of utter exhaustion and peaceWhich comes in dying to give something life..."
"If you can imagine a thing,then it has already existed,somewhere, somewhen, somehow."
"Imagination is glorious riches of mystery."
"Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas."
"There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas."
"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl."
"Run! Go perfect your crafts. Run! Go use your creativity."
"An inexhaustible imagination is the fountain of youth."
"An artist sees not only the thing, but he also hears its inner voice."
"When you write from the heart, it is always beautiful."
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."
"Fantastic ideas often come from fantasy."
"It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book."
"Explore the power of creativity."
"Get your idea into image and find ways to convert it into tangible product."
"When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world."
"Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random is your friend!"
"Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about."
"One day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonder. A story that will give you another story. One day I will tell you a story. A story about life. A story about my life. One day I will tell you a story!"
"The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen."
"Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted."
"Imagination can take you to any place of interest."
"Creativity is the art and science of expressing inner beauty."
"All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down."
"Let your dreams fly in the sky of imagination."
"A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with."
"A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder."
"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."
"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing."
"After life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art."
"A writer must pay attention his or her surroundings."
"Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up."
"As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!"
"When you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself..."
"Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it."
"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."
"It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival."
"I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me."
"I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination."
"You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."
"I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining."
"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."
"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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