Lloyd Alexander Quotes

Talent works, genius creates.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

You have to create something from nothing.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

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

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

I'm ready to create.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

For me it's just, I have too many ideas, man. It's a problem, actually.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

We definitely want to make sure that what we are making is something that we are proud of and something that we are inspired to write.

My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.

Personally, I've got too many ideas to use in my lifetime, probably. But that's a nice problem to have, I think.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.