Diana Vreeland Quotes

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

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.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

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

I believe in creative work.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.

I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.