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Only he is gifted with a happy fate,
He is joyful, whose heart is just.

Albucasim Ferdowsi

What is a poet? A person who writes in poetry? Of course not. He is called a poet not because he writes in poetry; but he writes in poetry, that is, he brings words and sounds into harmony, because he is a son of harmony, a poet.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

Truly, art is in nature; who knows how to find it, he owns it.

Albrecht Durer

Beautiful imagination is just as necessary for the historian as for the poet, for without imagination you cannot see anything, you cannot understand anything.

Anatole France

A sense of proportion in art is everything.

Anatole France

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for that, all other pleasures no longer exist.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Happiness is a waste of yourself on the creation of your own hands, which will live on after your death.

Any ascent is painful. Rebirth is painful. Without being exhausted, I will not hear the music. Suffering, effort helps the music to sound.

Does the effort seem fruitless to you? Blind man, step back a few steps ... The magic of skillful hands has created masterpieces, hasn't it? But believe me, good luck and bad luck have created them ... A beautiful dance is born from the ability to dance.

Only a bee recognizes a hidden sweetness in a flower,
Only the artist senses a beautiful trace on everything.

Afanasy Afanasievich Fet

When I create music, I don't think of it in isolation from the idea.

Benjamin Britten

An unmistakable sign that something is not art or that someone does not understand art is boredom ... Art should be a means of education, but its goal is pleasure.

Berthold Brecht

All arts serve the greatest of the arts - the art of living on earth.

Berthold Brecht

Art requires knowledge.

Berthold Brecht

When humanity is destroyed, there is no more art. Unite beautiful words Is not art.

Berthold Brecht

Began a round dance - dance it to the end.

Bulgarian proverb

Art is always, without ceasing, occupied with two things. It contemplates death relentlessly and creates life relentlessly.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Children should live in the world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, creativity.

Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky

The third faculty of the soul after mind and will is creativity.

Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky

Creativity is a lofty feat, and a feat requires sacrifice.

Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov

Life is not a burden, but wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone makes it a burden, it is his own fault.

Vikentiy Vikentievich Veresaev

Music is the universal language of the world.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I listen to music, I hear perfectly clear answers to all my questions, and everything in me calms down and becomes clearer. Or rather, I feel that these are not questions at all.

Gustav Mahler

In order to discover the laws that belong to the world of primary images, the artist must awaken to life as a person: almost all of his noble feelings, a considerable share of intellect, intuition, and desire to create, must be developed in him.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

The laws of Art originate not in the material, but in the ideal world where Beauty dwells, matter can only indicate the boundaries within which artistic inspiration spreads.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

The Lord made music as common language for people.

When love and skill are combined, a masterpiece can be expected.

John Ruskin

Without impressions, enthusiasm, inspiration, without life experience, there is no creativity.

Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Always being dissatisfied is the essence of creativity.

Jules Renard

Only a chosen one can create art,
Every person is to love art.

Julien Grune

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The layman imagines that for creativity one must wait for inspiration. This is a deep misconception.

Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky

High art not only reflects life, it, participating in life, changes it.

Ilya G. Erenburg

In any piece of art, great or small, everything to the last detail depends on the intention.

Art is the mediator of that which cannot be expressed.

The impulse to creativity can just as easily fade as it arose if left without food.

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Not a single, even the initial moment of creativity can do without the work of the imagination.

Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

Simplicity, truth and naturalness are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Study the science of art and the art of science.

Leonardo da Vinci

The art of living has always consisted mainly of the ability to look ahead.

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov

Let your life be equal to you, let nothing contradict one another, and this is impossible without knowledge and without art, allowing you to know the divine and the human.

Lucius Anney Seneca (the Younger)

Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from human hearts.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Every genuine piece of music has an idea.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Others, who love their art, completely surrender to their work, forgetting to wash and eat. You value your nature less than an engraver - engraving, a dancer - dances, a money-lover - money, an ambitious - glory. Does a generally useful activity seem to you less meaningful and less worthy of effort?

Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more like the art of wrestling than dancing. It requires readiness and resilience to deal with the sudden and the unforeseen.

Marcus Aurelius

Most main tool an artist who is formed through constant training is the belief in your ability to work miracles when you need it.

Mark Rothko

Art is jealous, it requires that a person surrender himself entirely to him.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Music reigns autocraticly and makes you forget about everything else.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the hands of talent, everything can serve as an instrument for beauty.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

I recall with horror how people who considered themselves educated raged against Wagner, calling his music a cacophony. Obviously, every achievement must go through the ordeal of denial and ridicule.

Nicholas Roerich

A true artist must sacrifice herself to her art. Like a nun, she has no right to lead the life that most women want.

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova

The spirit is the master, the imagination is the instrument, the body is the obedient material. Each person has his own inner world, created by the power of imagination. Imagination is born pure and strong desire hearts. If this power is enough to light up every corner of this inner peace, then everything that a person thinks about will take shape in his soul.

Paracelsus

Inspiration is the kind of guest who doesn't like visiting the lazy.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Everyone is able to create well only what the muse inspires him to do.

Music inspires the whole world, provides the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination ...

The path to the abode of the muses, alas, is not wide and not straight.

Lack of inspiration can really take a toll on your productivity. It is difficult to do the same work every day with inspiration; sometimes recharge is required. Something that can give strength and inspiration.

If you're feeling short of inspiration, this list of ten sayings and quotes about inspiration, creativity, and ideas may help you.

Creativity makes mistakes. The art consists in knowing which of them it is worth persisting.
Scott Adams (American cartoonist).

Allow yourself to make mistakes by eliminating the fear of failure. This can serve to release your inspiration. Fear of failure gets in the way of implementing ideas and expressing opinions, get rid of it.

Don't think. Reflection is the enemy of inspiration. You cannot try to do something. You just have to do something.
Ray Bradbury (science fiction writer).

The connecting thread with the previous quote is the ability to fearlessly make mistakes. Don't even keep bad ideas to yourself, develop them and they can grow into something better. Do not cut ideas at the root, give them the opportunity to be realized.

The air is full of ideas. They are constantly knocking on your head. You just have to know what you want, then forget it and go about your business. The idea will come suddenly. It has always been that way.
Henry Ford (American industrialist).

Sometimes ideas have to come to mind as if by accident. Just sitting there and trying to come up with something is a bad path to productivity. Just keep yourself busy and the idea will come by itself.

No chaos, no inspiration. It's like the kitchen at lunchtime.
Mason Cooley (American aphorist).

If you want to make an omelet, you have to break a couple of eggs. Comparison with cooking is great way show how creativity can be chaotic. Sometimes you need to implement old ideas or abandon them in order to come up with new ones.

Ideas must take root and be immortalized. Sometimes you need to let an idea develop organically.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, for on that day he rested from all his works that God did and created.
Bible.

Creationists believe that after six days of creating heaven and earth, God set aside a day to rest. Taking breaks is essential to maintain your creativity. Working too hard can put an end to your inspiration.

Speed ​​is the true key to inspiration. The longer you do something, the less likely you are to do it. Patrick Stump (American musician).

Ideas are fleeting. Fix them and strive to implement them. Carry a pen and notebook or voice recorder with you to jot down ideas.

Being creative is more than just being different from others. Anyone can be weird, it's easy. It's hard to be as simple and great at the same time as Bach. Making things is simple, incredibly simple - that's creativity.
Charles Mingus (American jazzman).

The best ideas are very simple and everyone thinks why it didn't occur to them. Think of things in their simplest form, keep things simple.

A person can die. Civilization can rise and fall. But the ideas will live.
John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States).

Romanticize your ideas. Believe that one good idea can change the world. And there is no reason why this idea cannot be yours.

Creativity is contagious. Distribute it.
Albert Einstein (great scientist).

Surround yourself creative people... Sharing ideas is very helpful if you want to look at a problem from a new perspective.

Creativity is a continuation of the creation of the world. The continuation and completion of the creation of the world is a Divine-human deed, God's creativity with man, human creativity with God.
Nikolay Berdyaev

Creativity is the transition of non-being into being through the act of freedom.
Nikolay Berdyaev

I only feel good when I am with a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Seeing and doing new things is a great pleasure.
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)

In the depths of a person lies a creative force that is capable of creating what should be, which will not give us peace and rest until we express it outside of us in one way or another.
Johann Goethe

Life without labor is shameful; labor without creativity is not worthy of man.
John Ruskin

Creation! Here is a great salvation from suffering, a great relief of life!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Joy is essential for creativity.
Edvard Grieg

Expressing all of yourself in your creation - is there a greater triumph for the creator?
Victor Hugo

To work is to create, and creativity is the only deep and real joy that a person can experience in this life.
Vincenzo Gioberti

Each person is a creator, for he creates something from various innate factors and possibilities.
Alfred Adler

The ability to create is great gift nature; the act of creativity, in the creative soul, is a great sacrament; a minute of creativity is a minute of great sacred action.
Vissarion Belinsky

There is hardly a higher of pleasure than the pleasure of creating.
Nikolay Gogol

Creativity ... is an integral, organic property human nature... It is a necessary accessory of the human spirit. It is as legitimate in a person, perhaps, like two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and constitutes a whole with him.
Fedor Dostoevsky

The need for beauty and creativity, embodying it, is inseparable from man, and without it man, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Fedor Dostoevsky

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for that, all other pleasures no longer exist.
Anton Chekhov

Man was born for great joy, for incessant creativity, in which he is a god, for a wide, free, unrestrained love for everything: for a tree, for the sky, for a person ...
Alexander Kuprin

Only in creativity is there joy - everything else is dust and vanity.
Anatoly Koni

There is only one happiness: to create.
Romain Rolland

Creativity is the beginning that gives a person immortality.
Romain Rolland

To create - whether new flesh or spiritual values ​​- means to break free from the captivity of your body, it means to rush into the hurricane of life, it means to be the One Who Is. To create is to kill death.
Romain Rolland

Only the one who creates lives. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are the joys of creativity: love, genius, action - these are discharges of power born in the flame of a single fire.
Romain Rolland

The key to unlocking your dreams is, first and foremost, creativity.
Zac Efron

Creation - special kind activity, it carries satisfaction in itself.
Somerset Maugham

I have never felt age ... If you have creative work, you have no age or time.
Louise Nevelson

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The act of creativity strikes a habit by overcoming everything in an original way.
George Lois

Joy can be found only in creativity - everything else is perishable and insignificant.
Anatoly Koni

Where there is life and freedom, there is room for new creativity.
Sergey Bulgakov

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. So, and surprise.
Julia Cameron


Mary Lou Cook

To have all the grounds for creativity, you need your life itself to be meaningful.
Henrik Ibsen

To create is nothing but to believe.
Romain Rolland

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
Rita Mae Brown

Creativity is about inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. If you want to be creative, you have to get rid of all conditioning; otherwise your work will be nothing more than a copy, just a carbon copy. You can only be creative if you are an individual; you cannot create while remaining a part of crowd psychology.
Osho

Creativity is the scent of individual freedom.
This is a state of creativity. This can be called its main quality - to be in harmony with nature, to be in tune with life, with the universe.
Osho

Lack of inspiration can really take a toll on your productivity. It is difficult to do the same work every day with inspiration; sometimes recharge is required. Something that can give strength and inspiration.

If you're feeling short of inspiration, this list of ten sayings and quotes about inspiration, creativity, and ideas may help you.

Creativity makes mistakes. The art consists in knowing which of them it is worth persisting.
Scott Adams (American cartoonist).

Allow yourself to make mistakes by eliminating the fear of failure. This can serve to release your inspiration. Fear of failure gets in the way of implementing ideas and expressing opinions, get rid of it.

Don't think. Reflection is the enemy of inspiration. You cannot try to do something. You just have to do something.
Ray Bradbury (science fiction writer).

The connecting thread with the previous quote is the ability to fearlessly make mistakes. Don't even keep bad ideas to yourself, develop them and they can grow into something better. Do not cut ideas at the root, give them the opportunity to be realized.

The air is full of ideas. They are constantly knocking on your head. You just have to know what you want, then forget it and go about your business. The idea will come suddenly. It has always been that way.
Henry Ford (American industrialist).

Sometimes ideas have to come to mind as if by accident. Just sitting there and trying to come up with something is a bad path to productivity. Just keep yourself busy and the idea will come by itself.

No chaos, no inspiration. It's like the kitchen at lunchtime.
Mason Cooley (American aphorist).

If you want to make an omelet, you have to break a couple of eggs. Comparison with cooking is a great way to show how creativity can be chaotic. Sometimes you need to implement old ideas or abandon them in order for new ones to come.

Ideas must take root and be immortalized. Sometimes you need to let an idea develop organically.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, for on that day he rested from all his works that God did and created.
Bible.

Creationists believe that after six days of creating heaven and earth, God set aside a day to rest. Taking breaks is essential to maintain your creativity. Working too hard can put an end to your inspiration.

Speed ​​is the true key to inspiration. The longer you do something, the less likely you are to do it. Patrick Stump (American musician).

Ideas are fleeting. Fix them and strive to implement them. Carry a pen and notebook or voice recorder with you to jot down ideas.

Being creative is more than just being different from others. Anyone can be weird, it's easy. It's hard to be as simple and great at the same time as Bach. Making things is simple, incredibly simple - that's creativity.
Charles Mingus (American jazzman).

The best ideas are very simple and everyone thinks why it didn't occur to them. Think of things in their simplest form, keep things simple.

A person can die. Civilization can rise and fall. But the ideas will live.
John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States).

Romanticize your ideas. Trust that one good idea can change the world. And there is no reason why this idea cannot be yours.

Creativity is contagious. Distribute it.
Albert Einstein (great scientist).

Surround yourself with creative people. Sharing ideas is very helpful if you want to look at a problem from a new perspective.