Quotes about Creativity
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
— Henri Matisse
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
— Nadine Gordimer
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
— Erica Jong
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
— Dorothy Sayers
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
— Marianne Williamson
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
— John Keats
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
— CS Lewis
She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good, and she didn't care what we thought of it.
— Michael Ignatieff
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
— Erica Jong
When Sinatra was alive and singing, he was constantly changing orchestrators from one album to the next because he said he didn't want every record to sound like every other record.
— Frank Sinatra Jr.