Quotes and phrases about work and creativity.  Creativity - aphorisms, catchphrases, phrases, sayings

Creativity is a riddle that the artist asks himself.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 – 1966), Polish poet and aphorist

Don't be proud - create.
God created the world in a moment of humility.
Grigory Landau (1877 – 1941), philosopher, critic

“Think first, speak later” is the motto of criticism; “Speak first, think later” is the motto of creativity.
Edward Forster (1879 – 1970), English writer and critic

Few people create anything creative after the age of 35. The reason for this is that few people create anything creative before the age of 35.
Joel Hildebrand (1881 – 1983), American chemist

Creativity gives birth to a creator.
Maxim Zvonarev (b. 1956), journalist

Dogmatism is the integrity of the spirit; he who creates is always dogmatic, always boldly choosing and creating what he has chosen.
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 – 1948), philosopher

Mastery is when the “what” and “how” come together.
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874 – 1940), director

Only those for whom it will never come wait for their time.
Grigory Landau

His creativity reached a double bottom.
Wiesław Brudzinski (b. 1920), Polish satirist

The state of creative impotence, alas, does not prevent one from creating.
Leszek Kumor, Polish aphorist

All creativity is essentially prayer. All creativity is directed into the ear of the Almighty.
Joseph Brodsky

Creativity is a common endeavor, done by the solitary.
Marina Tsvetaeva

Every man is less than his most beautiful creation.
Paul Valéry

An invention can be improved, a creation can only be imitated.
Maria Ebner-Eschenbach

I close my eyes to see better.
Paul Gauguin

The work is a flawed design.
Alfred Schnittke

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
James Whistler

Only the Almighty had complete freedom of creativity, and even then only on the first day of creation.
Maxim Zvonarev

Doing easily what is difficult for others is talent; to do what is impossible for talent is genius.
A. Amiel

Great talents are alien to pettiness.
O. Balzac

If talent does not have sufficient strength within itself to align itself with its aspirations and enterprises, it produces only empty flowers when you expect fruit from it.
V. Belinsky

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

The level of honor of society depends on the level of respect (even reverence, worship) for talent; there is no greater blow to honor than the triumph of mediocrity.
E. Bogat

Man's abilities, so far as experience and analogy teach us, are limitless; there is no reason to suppose even any imaginary limit at which the human mind will stop.
G. Buckle

The creator of poverty does not know.
Far from worldly bounties,
I am not busy with the extraction of wealth, -
He takes them out of their souls.
L. Boleslavsky

Great Creations human spirit are like mountain peaks: their snow-white peaks rise higher and higher in front of us, the further we move away from them.
S. Bulgakov

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

It seems to us that people have little knowledge of both their capabilities and their strengths: they exaggerate the former, and underestimate the latter.
F. Bacon

Ingenuity lies precisely in the ability to compare things and recognize their connections.
L. Vauvenargues

There are no more reliable patrons than our own abilities.
L. Vauvenargues

Some are colorless in the first row, but shine in the second.
Voltaire

It’s wonderful to invent yourself, but to know and appreciate what others have found is less than to create.
I. Goethe

He who is born with talent and for talent finds his best existence in it.
I. Goethe

No one knows what his powers are until he uses them.
I. Goethe

The ability is assumed in advance, but it must become a skill.
I. Goethe

Traces will disappear generations,
But talent is alive, genius is immortal.
M. Glinka

There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating.
N. Gogol

You won’t learn the techniques of creativity. Every creator has his own techniques. One can only imitate higher techniques, but this leads nowhere, and one cannot penetrate into the work of the creative spirit.
I. Goncharov

If you don’t know how to hold an ax in your hand, you won’t be able to cut wood, and if you don’t know the language well, you won’t be able to write it beautifully and understandably to everyone.
M. Gorky

Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength...
M. Gorky

Great talents are products of painful passion...
J. D'Alembert

Man is glorified neither by gold nor by silver. The man is famous for his talent and skill.
A. Jami

Compared to what we should be, we are still in a half-asleep state. We use only a small part of our physical and mental resources. In general, we can say that a person lives in this way far beyond his capabilities. He has abilities of various kinds that he does not usually use.
W. James

Talent is one-third instinct, one-third memory, and one-third will.
K. Dossey

Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood.
F. Dostoevsky

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

What is talent? Talent is... the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express poorly.
F. Dostoevsky

There are no incapable people. There are those who are unable to determine their abilities and develop them.
And since these problems are solved in childhood, it is primarily the parents’ fault. Without their help, the child cannot solve these problems.
V. Zubkov

True talents do not go unrewarded: there is an audience, there is posterity. The main thing is not to receive, but to deserve.
N. Karamzin

The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people.
N. Karamzin

Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice. All sorts of petty and selfish feelings interfere with creativity. And creativity is selfless service to the art of the people.
V. Kachalov

The highest task of talent is to make people understand the meaning and value of life through their work.
V. Klyuchevsky

Talent is a spark of God with which a person usually burns himself, illuminating the path for others with his own fire.
V. Klyuchevsky

Who's stopping you from inventing waterproof gunpowder?
Kozma Prutkov

Talents measure the success of civilization, and they also represent milestones of history, serving as telegrams from ancestors and contemporaries to posterity.
Kozma Prutkov

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

True talents do not get angry because of criticism:/It cannot damage their beauty,/Only fake flowers are afraid of rain.
I. Krylov

The relationship between intelligence and talent is the same as between the whole and the part.
J. Labruyère

Human talents are like trees: each has special properties and bears its own inherent fruits.
F. La Rochefoucauld

I maintain that a bad head, having auxiliary advantages and exercising them, can outperform the best, just as a child can draw a line on a ruler better than greatest master by hand.
G. Leibniz

Talent must be encouraged.
V. Lenin

He who does not use his talents to teach and educate others is either a bad or limited person.
G. Lichtenberg

There is something rarer, more extraordinary, than giftedness. It is the ability to recognize the giftedness of others.
G. Lichtenberg

We are born with abilities and powers that allow us to do almost everything - in any case, these abilities are such that they can take us further than we can easily imagine; but only the exercise of these forces can impart to us skill and art in anything and lead us to perfection.
D. Locke

Everyone feels what their strength is, which they can count on.
Lucretius

What else is wealth but the absolute manifestation creative talents person...
K. Marx

To strictly follow your inclinations and to be in their power means to be a slave to yourself.
M. Montaigne

"Impossible" is a word that can only be found in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon I

Ability means little without opportunity.
Napoleon

He who creates loves himself in it; therefore, he has to hate himself in the deepest way - in this hatred he knows no measure.
F. Nietzsche

Vocation is the backbone of life.
F. Nietzsche

Another person's talent seems less than it is, because he always sets too big tasks for himself.
F. Nietzsche

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

Creative work is wonderful, extraordinarily hard and amazingly joyful work.
N. Ostrovsky

The impulse to create can fade away just as easily as it arose if left without food.
K. Paustovsky

The creative process in its very course acquires new qualities, becomes more complex and richer.
K. Paustovsky

The highest talent will easily disgrace himself if someone who is too self-confident wants to measure his strength the first time in a matter that requires enormous preliminary information, maturity of mind in judgment and experience in life.
N. Pirogov

Only strong talent can embody an era.
D. Pisarev

Everything that causes the transition from non-existence to being is creativity.
Plato

It has long been noted that talents appear everywhere and always, wherever and whenever social conditions exist that are favorable for their development.
G. Plekhanov

What remains for a long time is born from an integral personality in pain and joy, in exactly the same way as life is born in nature. To get to this synthesis of the birth of personality in oneself, just as scientists get to protein synthesis, is a seductive and dangerous path of creativity.
G. Plekhanov

Essentially, in order to deeply appreciate the creation of what we call genius, one must oneself possess the genius necessary for such an accomplishment.
E. Po

The first stage of all creativity is self-forgetfulness.
M. Prishvin

Creativity is a passion that dies in form.
M. Prishvin

All of us, alas, are not equally suited for all things.
Propertius

When the sea is calm, anyone can be a helmsman.
Publilius Syrus

Always remain unsatisfied: this is the essence of creativity.
J. Renard

There is only one happiness: to create. Only the one who creates is alive. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are creative joys...
R. Rolland

To create is nothing other than to believe.
R. 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 means to kill death.
R. Rolland

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

What a pity that the offspring is unreasonable
Born from a sage:
Son does not inherit
Father's talent and knowledge.
Rudaki

What is the main sign of real talent? This constant development, constant self-improvement.
V. Stasov

A vocation can only be recognized and proven by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace or well-being in order to devote himself to his vocation.
L. Tolstoy

Where labor turns into creativity, the fear of death naturally, even physiologically, disappears.
L. Tolstoy

Don't you know if you have talent yet? Give it time to mature; and even if it doesn’t exist, does a person really need poetic talent in order to live and act?
I. Turgenev

Talent, like character, manifests itself in struggle. Some people adapt to circumstances, others defend such necessary human principles as honor, integrity, and loyalty. The opportunists disappear. The principled ones, having overcome all difficulties, remain.
V. Uspensky

Where there is no scope for the manifestation of abilities, there is no ability.
L. Feuerbach

Over the course of life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
3. Freud

The creative personality obeys a different, higher law than the law of simple duty. For someone who is called to perform a great deed, to carry out a discovery or feat that moves all of humanity forward, for that person his true homeland is no longer his fatherland, but his deed. He feels ultimately responsible only to one authority - to the task that he is destined to solve, and he would rather allow himself to despise state and temporary interests than the internal obligation that his special fate, his special talent have placed on him.
S. Zweig

Let everyone know their abilities and let them strictly judge themselves, their virtues and vices.
Cicero

Great talent requires great hard work.
P. Tchaikovsky

The truth is the power of talent; wrong direction destroys the strongest talent.
N. Chernyshevsky

Talent... gives everyone double the price.
N. Chernyshevsky

Any person of average abilities can, through proper work on himself, diligence, attention and perseverance, become anything he wants, except a good poet.
F. Chesterfield

Brevity is the soul of wit.
A. Chekhov

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

I generally don’t believe in the power of talent alone, without hard work. Without it, the greatest talent will fizzle out, just as a spring will die out in the desert, not making its way through the sands...
F. Chaliapin

Insomnia is the cradle of creativity.
I. Shevelev

In creativity, maximum output does not deplete, but tones.
I. Shevelev

Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.
W. Shakespeare

In fact, the creator usually experiences only grief.
L. Shestov

The creators of great ideas are very dismissive of their creations and care little about their fate in the world.
L. Shestov

Ordinary people are only concerned with passing the time; and whoever has any talent - to take advantage of the time.
A. Schopenhauer

Any worker, be it a writer, artist, composer, scientist, scientist or cultural worker, cannot create without being separated from social work and life. Without impressions, delight, inspiration, without life experience- no creativity.
D. Shostakovich

Discoveries are made when everyone thinks that this cannot be, but one person does not know it.
A. Einstein

: Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice.

Anatoly Papanov:
I see the unity of creativity in the art of theatre, cinema, television, and stage. Four muses, and you are alone...
Cara Delevingne :
Attention fuels creativity and stimulates the desire to be better, brighter, and liked.
Cara Delevingne :
Life teaches creativity...
Heinrich Heine:
Creativity is a disease of the soul, just as a pearl is a disease of a mollusk.
P.L. Kapitsa:
Freedom of creativity - freedom to make mistakes.
P.L. Kapitsa:
The basis of creative work is always a feeling of protest.
G.V. Alexandrov:
The deeper the knowledge, the wider the circle of observations, the greater the experience of life, the brighter creative thought flourishes, the more abundant the creative harvest...
Yuri Shevchuk:
With our creativity we complete God's world.
Baurzhan Toyshibekov:
Recipe for creativity: Take one portion of ink and mix with three portions of sweat.
Pablo Picasso:
Good taste is the worst enemy of creativity.
N.V. Gogol:
There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating.
Dmitry Shostakovich:
Without impressions, delight, without life experience, there is no creativity.
Dmitry Shostakovich:
Without creative exploration there is no true art.

Creativity is a continuation of peacemaking. The continuation and completion of world-making is a Divine-human work, God’s creativity with man, human creativity with God.
Nikolay Berdyaev

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

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

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

In the depths of man 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 work is shameful; work without creativity is not worthy of a person.
John Ruskin

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

Joy is essential for creativity.
Edvard Grieg

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

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

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

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

There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating.
Nikolay Gogol

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

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

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

Man was born for great joy, for unceasing creativity, in which he is God, for broad, free, unconstrained love for everything: for a tree, for the sky, for a person...
Alexander Kuprin

Only in creativity there is 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 means 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 brings satisfaction in itself.
Somerset Maugham

I have never felt age... If you creative work, you don't have age or time.
Louise Nevelson

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

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

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

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. Yes, and surprises.
Julia Cameron


Mary Lou Cook

To have every reason for creativity, you need your life itself to be meaningful.
Henrik Ibsen

To create is nothing other than to believe.
Romain Rolland

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

Creativity means 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 will have to get rid of all conditioning; otherwise your creativity 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 part of the crowd psychology.
Osho

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

A selection of sayings about creative imagination

Don't expect your child to be like you or what you want. Help him become not you, but himself.

Janusz Korczak

You need to learn the rules of the game. And then you need to start playing better than everyone else.

Albert Einstein

*****

Are you familiar with the expression “you can’t jump over your head”? It's a delusion. A person can do anything.

Nikola Tesla

Children - born artists, scientists, inventors - see the world in all its freshness and pristineness; Every day they reinvent their lives. They love to experiment and look at the wonders of the world around them with surprise and delight.

P. Weinzweig

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

K. G. Paustovsky

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

A. Einstein

Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist beyond childhood.

P. Picasso

We are entering new era education, the purpose of which is discovery rather than teaching.

Marshall McLuhan

In fact, it is almost a miracle that current teaching methods have not yet completely stifled the holy curiosity of man.

A. Einstein

Imagination! Without this quality one cannot be a poet, a philosopher, or smart person, neither a thinking being, nor just a person.

D. Diderot

The main thing that distinguishes a person from an animal is imagination.

Albert Camus

For some, the sight of the abyss evokes the thought of an abyss, and for others, of a bridge. Life filled with fear of the abyss loses its meaning; life, subordinated to the task of conquering the abyss, acquires it.

V.E. Meyerhold

Logic can take you from point A to point B, and imagination can take you anywhere.

Albert Einstein

What we know is limited, but what we do not know is infinite.

P. Laplace

Every inventor is a plant of his time and his environment. His creativity comes from those needs that are created for him and are based on those possibilities that exist outside of him... A law has been established in psychology: the desire for creativity is always proportional to the simplicity of the environment.

L.S.Vygotsky

If you want the world to change, become that change yourself.

Gandhi

Imagination makes a sensitive man an artist, and a courageous man a hero.

Anatole France

Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited. Imagination embraces everything in the world, stimulates progress and is the source of its evolution.
Albert Einstein

A fairy tale promotes the development of imagination, and this is necessary for a child to solve his own problems.

L.F. Obukhova

Creativity is the preservation of childhood.

L.S.Vygotsky

Even an instant insight can become the first spark from which, sooner or later, the flame of creative search will ignite.

V. Shatalov

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

V. A. Sukhomlinsky

Only what is created by our imagination remains with us forever.

Clive Barker

A game is a special form of life developed or created by society for development. And in this regard, she is a pedagogical creation.

B.A. Zeltserman, N.V. Rogaleva

A person, unfortunately, very quickly forgets what he thought and how he perceived the world around him in childhood and how interesting and amazing his personal world, created by his own imagination, was.

Oleg Roy

When caring for a plant, the gardener waters it, fertilizes it, loosens the soil around it, but does not pull the top so that it grows faster.

K. Rogers

Know how to open one thing to your child in the world around him, but open it in such a way that a piece of life sparkles in front of him with all the colors of the rainbow.

V.A. Sukhomlinsky

Genius is one percent talent and ninety-nine percent work.


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

Albukasim Ferdowsi

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

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

Truly, art lies in nature; whoever knows how to discover it owns it.

Albrecht Durer

A wonderful imagination is as necessary for the historian as for the poet, for without imagination nothing can be seen, nothing can be understood.

Anatole France

A sense of proportion in art is everything.

Anatole France

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

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Every climb is painful. Rebirth is painful. Without being exhausted, I won’t be able to hear the music. Suffering and effort help the music to sound.

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

Only a bee recognizes the hidden sweetness in a flower,
Only an artist senses the trace of beauty in everything.

Afanasy Afanasievich Fet

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

Benjamin Britten

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

Bertolt Brecht

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

Bertolt Brecht

Art requires knowledge.

Bertolt Brecht

When humanity is destroyed, no more art. Unite beautiful words- this is not art.

Bertolt Brecht

The round dance has started - dance it to the end.

Bulgarian proverb

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

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

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

Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky

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

Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky

Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice.

Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov

Life is not a burden, but wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.

Vikenty Vikentievich Veresaev

Music is the universal language of the world.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Gustav Mahler

In order to discover the laws belonging 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 intelligence, intuition, and the 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 lives; matter can only indicate the boundaries within which artistic inspiration spreads.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

The Lord created music as common language for people.

When love and craftsmanship come together, you can expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

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

Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

To always remain unsatisfied is the essence of creativity.

Jules Renard

Only a chosen one can create art,
Everyone loves art.

Julien Grün

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The layman imagines that in order to be creative one must wait for inspiration. This is a deep misconception.

Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky

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

Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg

In any work of art, great or small, everything down to the last detail depends on the design.

Art is a mediator of what cannot be expressed.

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

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Not a single moment of creativity, even the initial moment of creativity, can occur without the work of 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 forward.

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from people's hearts.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Each one has a genuine piece of music I have an idea.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Others, who love their art, devote themselves entirely to their work, forgetting to wash themselves and eat. You value your nature less than an engraver values ​​engraving, a dancer values ​​dancing, a money lover values ​​money, an ambitious person values ​​fame. Does generally useful activity really seem to you less significant and less worthy of effort?

Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more reminiscent of the art of fighting than of dancing. It requires preparedness and resilience in the face of the unexpected and unexpected.

Marcus Aurelius

The artist's most important tool, which is formed through constant training, is faith in his ability to create miracles when necessary.

Mark Rothko

Art is jealous; it demands that a person devote himself entirely to it.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Music rules autocratically and makes you forget about everything else.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the hands of talent, everything can serve as a tool for beauty.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

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

Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich

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

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova

The spirit is the master, the imagination is the tool, 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 sufficient to illuminate every corner of this inner world, then everything that a person thinks about will take shape in his soul.

Paracelsus

Inspiration is the kind of guest who does not like to visit the lazy.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Everyone is capable of creating well only what the muse inspires him to do.

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

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