Ernest Hemingway Quotes

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

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 think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.