Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. —E. H. Gombrich More about this quote Tags: creativity sewing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “creativity” Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that's how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you're not one of them, you're just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I'm an unpromising beginning, and I could start something. —Brian Eno More about this quote Tags: art creativity effort originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Tags: creativity originality imitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Trying to force creativity is never good. —Sarah McLachlan More about this quote Tags: creativity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. —Stephen Nachmanovitch More about this quote Tags: creativity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. —Stephen Nachmanovitch More about this quote Tags: creativity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that's how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you're not one of them, you're just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I'm an unpromising beginning, and I could start something. —Brian Eno More about this quote Tags: art creativity effort originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Tags: creativity originality imitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Trying to force creativity is never good. —Sarah McLachlan More about this quote Tags: creativity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. —Stephen Nachmanovitch More about this quote Tags: creativity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. —Stephen Nachmanovitch More about this quote Tags: creativity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email