Alethea Kontis Quotes

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

Art is both creation and recreation.

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

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.

It used to kind of upset me when I'd be working on a part in my hotel room, and I'd get an idea for a song and find myself on the guitar for an hour when I should be working on my lines. But I've discovered that when I start to shake up my creativity it wants to be expressed in all kinds of different ways. They all kind of inform each other.

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

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

Don't just consume things, create things

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.