#creative

Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words. ↗

— Lisa Fantino

#inspiration #writing #inspirational

Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart ↗

— Lisa Fantino

#inspiration #writing #inspirational

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #bubbling #creative #creative process #disparity

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

#amateur #approach #away #creative #creative spirit

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . . ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#creativity #god #joy #lovers #love

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece. ↗

— Eddie Murphy

#creator #self-made #men

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. ↗

— Henry Moore

#creative #inspirational #art

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together." Brene Brown ↗

— Brené Brown

#authority

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] ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#creativity #originality #point-of-view #uniqueness #writing

I only know that I know nothing ↗

— Socrates

#intellect #knowledge #philosophy #wisdom #intellect