Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Mary Lambert

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Charles Bukowski

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Andrew Motion

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Aleksandar Hemon

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Aleksandar Hemon

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

Alberto Moravia

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

Alberto Moravia

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Alberto Manguel

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Lorne Michaels

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Sadie Jones

Ive always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where youre writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

Wynn Bullock

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Marilyn Monroe

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

Ken Robinson

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

Ken Robinson

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

Ken Robinson

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

Henry Jenkins

Social connectivity, creativity and learning take place through these various media-related experiences.

Meister Eckhart

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.