Topic of the month 4: Favourite creativity quotes

My favourite creativity quotes

(contributed by Malu Sciamarelli) (30 July 2014)

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.  (Leo Burnett)

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.  (George Bernard Shaw)

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. (Maya Angelou)

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself. (Alan Moore)

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. (Arthur Koestler)

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both. (Alethea Kontis)

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. (Yevgeny Zamyatin)

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. (Ernest Hemingway)

The earth has music for those who listen. (William Shakespeare)

It happens that very often my writing with pen is interrupted by my writing with brush, but I think of both as writing. (Kenneth Patchen)

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight. (James McNeil Whistler)

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing. (Pablo Picasso)

If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. (Vincent Van Gogh)

Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard. (Gbickle)

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. (W.H. Auden)

 In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft.  (Susi Moore)

Writing is a struggle against silence. (Carlos Fuentes)

 Words are things. A small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. (Byron)

 Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. (Jamie L. Harding)

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder. (Austin Kleon)

Favourite Quotes about literature, poems, stories and writing.

This is a new column where we can share our favourite quotes.

 Submitted by Alan.

'It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.'  Duke Ellington

'If it doesn't look easy, you're not working hard enough.'  Fred Astaire

This lyfe so short, the crafte so long to learn.  Chaucer.

Poetry is that which arrives at the intellect by way of the heart. R.S.Thomas.

A story is a candle lit against the dark.

…linguistic creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.  Ron Carter.

Poetry:  ‘Dancing in chains’ Tang Chinese.

Poetry:  ‘Articulate energy’ Donald Davie

‘A poem is language under pressure.’  Ruth Padel.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.  Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.  Christopher  Fry

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. 

Emily Dickinson.

…the world become word.  Seamus Heaney

…the world become gooseflesh  Derek Jarman

 ……we look to poetry for the thisness that it encapsulates, and the otherness it  evokes.  Peter Jay.

 …poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.  Robert Frost.

The poet is a liar who always tells the truth. Jean Cocteau

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Novalis

A poem is true if it hangs together.  Information points to something else.  A poem points to nothing but itself.  E.M.Forster

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. Maxwell Bodenheim.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.  T.S. Eliot

A poet is … a person who is passionately in love with language. W.H.Auden