Quotes about Creativity
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
- Michelangelo
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
- Seth Godin
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.
- Steven Pressfield
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
- Steven Pressfield
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.
- Toni Morrison
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
- Washington Allston
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
- Vincent Van Gogh
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
- CS Lewis
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
- Oscar Wilde
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
- John Updike