41 quotes found
“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to hi...”
“By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).”
“When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.”
“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you ...”
“Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.”
“This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.”
“In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it a vision of some necessity higher t...”
“We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.”
“It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.”
“Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented having the most imagination and sympathy these are the first ones to get kil...”
“Inspiration does not come like a bolt nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.”
“When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.”
“Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.”
“Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.”
“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you...”
“In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it a vision of some necessity higher than ...”
