Christine Elise Quotes

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

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

I'm an artist in my heart.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

At moments we are all artists.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.