Pablo Neruda Quotes

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

All I've ever wanted to do is design and make; it's what I love doing.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.