Catherine Asaro Quotes

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

With soccer, I have the ability to do things differently. That is why I admire Leonardo da Vinci. He was able to create things other people wouldn't believe in.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

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

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

To create something you must be something.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

Modeling isn't boring.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.