Aharon Appelfeld Quotes

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

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

Art always demands of us something new.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out.

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

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.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I'm interested in creating new work.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

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

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.