Donna Noyman > Donna's Quotes

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
― Albert Einstein

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
― Maya Angelou

“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”
― Thomas Keller

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
― Brene Brown

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
― Scott Adams

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
― Erich Fromm

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
― Albert Einstein

“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
― Rick Riordan

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
― Bob Ross

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
― Saint Francis of Assisi

“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
― Danny Kaye

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
― Stella Adler

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
― Pablo Picasso