Top 7 Favorite Quotes About Creativity

by Susan Gabriel on November 5, 2008

Here are my top 7 favorite quotes about creativity. Do you have any to add?

 

 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. Danny Kaye

 

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see — or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.  Alice Walker

 

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.Augusten Burroughs

 

We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. ‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time’ lasts forever. –Philip Pullman

 

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. – Federico Fellini

 

Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen. – Robert Bresson

 

Talent is not talent until it is shared.  fortune cookie wisdom

 

P.S. If you have a passion, like I do, to document and pass down your family’s stories, check out www.YourFamilyTimeCapsule.com

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

mick November 22, 2008 at 4:24 pm

‘[Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.]‘ Henry James, The Art of Fiction.

Susan Gabriel November 22, 2008 at 4:53 pm

Thanks, Mick. Excellent one!

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