Quotes about Creativity
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
- Margaret Atwood
Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.
- Margaret Atwood
A word after a word after a word is power.
- Margaret Atwood
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
- Margaret Atwood
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.
- Margaret Fuller
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
- Margaret Fuller
The things we fear most in organisations — fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances — are the primary sources of creativity.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding.
- Maria Edgeworth
When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.
- Ann Voskamp
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.
- Bruce Lee
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
- Khalil Gibran
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
- William Faulkner