The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.