The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcel DuchampStichwörter: art creativity creative-process appreciation
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Blaise PascalStichwörter: poetry opening-lines on-writing despair creative-process life-and-death
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
Graham GreeneStichwörter: writing storytelling creative-process end beginning arbitrariness
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."
[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]
Stichwörter: imitation originality inspiration authenticity creativity creative-process rules sense-of-wonder transformation postmodernism context sources
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."
[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]
Stichwörter: writing originality creativity creative-process uniqueness point-of-view
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.
Salman RushdieStichwörter: strength experience empowerment writing courage memory creative-process aims guenter-grass record-of-life
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
Truman CapoteStichwörter: music poetry writing creative-process
It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
T.S. EliotStichwörter: creative-process
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.
Graham GreeneStichwörter: writing creative-process subconscious superficiality composition daily-life preoccupations
A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
Alice MunroStichwörter: books writing stories creative-process exploration discovery
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