The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: creativity self-confidence self-doubt
Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.
Meredith BrooksStichwörter: art creativity performance
You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
Lynda BarryStichwörter: art creativity
She's thinking that what she's been doing all these years isn't what she wants to do anymore. Sometimes music flows to her and from her, but sometimes it doesn't. Lately that happens more and more, and she can't seem to find what she had and what made her special. But she can't tell her father because he'd be so disappointed in her, so disappointed to find out she's not extraordinary after all.
Leila CoboStichwörter: music creativity writer-s-block
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
(Interview, The Paris Review)
Stichwörter: imagination writing creativity
After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he experienced the approach of what is called inspiration. At such moments the correlation of the forces controlling the artist is, as it were, stood on its head. The ascendancy is no longer with the artist or the state of mind which he is trying to express, but with language, his instrument of expression. Language, the home and dwelling of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music, not in the sense of outward, audible sounds but by virtue of the power and momentum of its inward flow. Then, like the current of a mighty river polishing stones and turning wheels by its very movement, the flow of speech creates in passing, by the force of its own laws, rhyme and rhythm and countless other forms and formations, still more important and until now undiscovered, unconsidered and unnamed.
At such moments Yury felt that the main part of his work was not being done by him but by something which was above him and controlling him: the thought and poetry of the world as it was at that moment and as it would be in the future. He was controlled by the next step it was to take in the order of its historical development; and he felt himself to be only the pretext and the pivot setting it in motion.
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In deciphering these scribbles he went through the usual disappointments. Last night these rough passages had astonished him and moved him to tears by certain unexpectedly successful lines. Now, on re-reading these very lines, he was saddened to find that they were strained and glaringly far-fetched.
Stichwörter: art creativity
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
Leonard BernsteinStichwörter: creativity criticism critics
Créer, c'est vivre deux fois.
Albert CamusStichwörter: creativity
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
Thomas MannStichwörter: art wealth beauty capitalism creativity ignorance sympathy subjectivity bias bourgeois egalitarianism
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
Yevgeny ZamyatinStichwörter: art music writing literature creativity architecture painting
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