Quotes and sayings about tag  creativity

39 Quotes

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Gustave Flaubert

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Gustave Flaubert

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Henry David Thoreau

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

John Waters

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Julian Barnes

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

Julio Cortázar

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Karl Lagerfeld

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

Ken Robinson

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

Kerstin Gier

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Leonardo da Vinci

The knowledge of all things is possible

Leonardo da Vinci

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Madonna

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