Audre Lorde Quotes

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

I am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

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

I take references from the past and flip them.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

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

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

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I believe in creative work.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

If you do come up with a new idea, in 4 seconds it will belong to somebody else.