#creative

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

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When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost. ↗

— Toba Beta

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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#creative #feeling #feelings #haruki-murakami #inspirational

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work. ↗

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected. ↗

— William Plomer

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When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creative-writing #life #meaningless #meaninglessness #modern-life

Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see "creator" as the literal term for "artist". I am suggesting you take the term "creator" quite literally. You are seeking to forge a creative alliance, artist-to-artist with the Great Creator. Accepting this concept can greatly expand your creative possibilities. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#spirituality #writing-life #life

Nursing a bottle from a half-floor above, Johnny Jukes stared at her and knew. She was all edges. She stood erect on the wall, like the scabbard of a sword. She did not slouch. Her clothes were crisp, like whole numbers. They were dark, except for her boots, which were red. Thorn of love. A screeching solo tore off a dozen dancers' heads. (67) ↗

— Michael Blumlein

#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

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