All Quotes By Tag: Creativity
“Let them shoot us in the head,My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.”
“There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”
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“But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.”
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“At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.”
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“Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting,the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity.”
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“Patriarchy doesn’t get yet that ‘hope’ is a powerful force that drives creativity. Otherwise words like ‘false’ and ‘hope’ would never be forced into this unconscious coupling….Hope is not false. And never has been… Rather, hope is part of the often forgotten feminine contribution to the creative process.”
“But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.”
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“Creativity takes Imagination, Imagination takes Courage, Courage takes Curiosity, and Curiosity leads to Success.”
“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”
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“Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.”
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“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”
“Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.”
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“Don’t believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”
“The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”
“One author said “I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It’s hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants”