Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

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

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Creativity is always from the beyond.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

I love to be creative.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

All I have, really, is my creativity.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

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

I believe in creative work.

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

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

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.