Erich Fromm Quotes

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had an intuition that if I was going to only write, I will stay in one room all the time and never go out. I felt that if I was going to make movies, I would have to communicate with people and it would be good for me.

I don't think it's good to interact with people with a certain agenda in mind.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

Normal people do not create art.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.