Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

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

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

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

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

It is always possible to create something original.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.