David Brin Quotes

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

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.

Creative instinct is personal.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.