#creative

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#creative #get #sell #such #things

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves. ↗

— Aberjhani

#art #artists #creative-vision #creativity #gifts

One of the strangest things is the act of creation. You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument. You then look inside yourself. You pull and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapeless things that swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your head like Zeus giving birth to Athena. And as it comes out, it takes shape and tangible form. It drips on the canvas, and slides through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the surface of the wood or marble. You have given it cohesion. You have brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing. You have glimpsed the divine. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#birth #blank #blank-slate #create #creating

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#child #creatively #done #everything #forgotten

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#away #better #better things #bring #creative

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. ↗

— John Updike

#activity #any #becomes #better #cares

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything. ↗

— Fred Ward

#anything #creative #felt #i #impulse

Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#creative #everyone #fair #fair share #field

The creative processes are so mysterious. ↗

— Jimmy Webb

#mysterious #processes

Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

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