Quotes about Creativity
She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.
— Isabel Allende
The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.
— Isabel Allende
She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is
— Isabel Allende
Women's creativity is called craft and is sold cheap; when men create, the result is called art and is costly, like Maurizio Cattelan's banana taped to a Miami art gallery wall with a price tag of US$120,000.
— Isabel Allende
I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically
— Isabel Allende
I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.
— Isabel Allende
You explained to me that inspiration is born of stillness, and creativity comes from movement.
— Isabel Allende
Writing is a calling, not a choice.
— Isabel Allende
You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
— Booker T. Washington
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
— John Milton
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
— Oscar Wilde