Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

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

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

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

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

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.

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.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

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.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

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

True creativity often starts where language ends.

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.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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

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

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

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

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.