Edith Schaeffer (1914–2013) American writer
The Hidden Art of Homemaking: Creative Ideas for Enriching Everyday Life (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1972, ISBN 978-0842313988
Edith Schaeffer (1914–2013) American writer
The Hidden Art of Homemaking: Creative Ideas for Enriching Everyday Life (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1972, ISBN 978-0842313988
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926–2016) American writer
Variant: To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.
Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 241
Context: Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 400
Paul Kurtz (1925–2012) American professor of philosophy
Paul Kurtz, Vern L. Bullough, Tim Madigan (eds.). Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz. (1994) p. 20
“I know that many artists feel that they are frauds - that's part of the pleasure of creativity.”
David Cronenberg (1943) Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor
Cronenberg: An intellectual with ominous powers http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/19iht-dupont.html (May 19, 2006)
“The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.”
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist
As quoted in Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present (1998), p. 62
Posthumous quotes
