Roy Blount Jr. Quotes

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I'm ready to create.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

I like to create.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.