Quotes and poems about creativity, handicrafts, craftsmanship

Beautiful girl with knitting needles in her hands

Quotes about transforming ordinary wool into elegant items are always very interesting to read. They are found quite often on women's pages. Girls try to explain to others how much effort and time they spend to master such a useful skill.

To be able to knit means to know how to rise above craft to creativity.
Any needlewoman is always an excellent housewife.
It's hard to believe, but most girls first picked up knitting needles simply because they were bored.
A woman never feels so comfortable as in a warm place with a ball on her lap.
The best part is knitting a sweater for your loved one.
The hardworking girl always keeps her knitting needles at hand.
In no other boutique will you be able to buy something that you will love as much as something you made with your own hands.
How nice it is to go outside in winter in an elegant scarf, given to yourself.
Women needlewomen gradually remain only in old books.
A ball and knitting needles distract you from unpleasant thoughts and help you tune into a harmonious mood.
There is no better way to pass the time than to knit several rows of a beautiful thing.
A Russian girl is recognized because she always has handicrafts at hand.
If a woman does not know how to knit, then she should definitely learn.
Knitting needles are kept in a treasured place, like an expensive item.

Sayings about manual work

Quotes about manual labor will tell about this important type of work, which does not lose its importance even in the era of gadgets.

“Sometimes the best ideas I ever had came to me while I was making something with my hands or doing exercises. I don’t know how this happens, but it’s a fact.” Chuck Palahniuk
“My first love was manual labor, and it still is. Sowing and harvesting, wide pastures where cattle graze...". Ariel Sharon
“For my father, manual labor was not just valuable in itself; it also helped him take his mind off difficult thoughts.” Mary Ellen Chase
“As you grow up, you are constantly expected to achieve something. But maybe I should just disappoint the audience and do physical labor, even though it’s so tiring?” Jennifer Price
“I believe that there is nothing better than manual labor in order to again feel oneness with nature. In the past, people constantly had to work with their hands, and thanks to this they gained intelligence. But now we mostly work with our minds - doesn’t this mean that there is a risk of losing it? Carol Smooth

Handmade things

A girl who knows how to knit will never seem too old-fashioned. At least to people of the opposite sex. Therefore, phrases about handicrafts also attract young people.

Only those who have never held a knitting needle are capable of laughing at a needlewoman.
Modern girls find it difficult to understand the joy of knitting.
When they see a woman with a ball, it seems that she is not doing anything special. And only the craftswomen know how hard she is now working on wool.
Knitting is a housework, during which the girl also manages to receive guests.
A loving grandmother will always teach her granddaughter how to use knitting needles.
Do you want to kill a couple of hours? Try to start a difficult thing. A month won't be enough for you.
When a woman does needlework, she does not sit without work and takes a break from other household chores.
There is nothing nicer than presenting your loved one with socks knitted for him by yourself.
If you want to bring joy to your daughter, then teach her to use knitting needles. She will be grateful to you until her old age.
A girl who has never picked up wool has no right to be considered an accomplished woman.
Every mother cherishes those clunky socks that cannot be worn. She treasures them because they were the first thing her little daughter knitted for her.
Previously, women were able to watch TV and count loops at the same time.
Even though needlework is work, you don’t want to take a break from it.
Knitting never gets boring.
You can’t buy something in a store that was suggested to you by your imagination and then created from an ordinary ball of wool.
Only our woman returns from the resort with a ready-made sweater in her suitcase.
Knitting calms the nerves and prolongs life.
A complex thing differs from a simple one only in the amount of attention and patience.

Do as I do!

Previously, girls started walking and doing needlework almost simultaneously. Therefore, quotes about knitting seem understandable to them. And those who make fun of them, after reading such statements, will soon become interested in knitting needles themselves.

A lazy woman does not like needlework.
Working with wool requires concentration. It is unlikely that you will be able to cook soup and wield knitting needles at the same time.
A girl will never laugh at a guy who knows how to knit.
The best way to relieve boredom is to learn crochet.
Previously, men went out into the street wearing awkward hats. And then they proudly explained: “My 5-year-old daughter knitted this for me.” And the faces of those who had just mocked them became sad. They were a little jealous. A clumsily knitted item spoke of family happiness.
The most expensive knitting needles are those that were passed down from grandmother to granddaughter.
A woman who knows how to knit cannot be considered a fool.
Handicrafts are a paid hobby.
Girls who laugh at those who force themselves on the ball themselves do not understand how much they are depriving themselves of.
Previously, a woman was not considered respectable unless she knew how to make a sweater for her husband.
If your wife knows how to hold knitting needles or a hook in her hands, then you will never have problems with winter things.
A day without a new row is a lost day.
In the last century, girls were not even taught to knit in school. Everyone already possessed this skill since kindergarten.
Women love housework. But they simply adore needlework.
There is no lost skill. There is an excess of laziness.
Row after row falls, and the knitter is carried away by her dreams somewhere far away. She comes to her senses - and she already has the thing ready.
Handicraft will calm your nerves, allow you to think about a problem, and kill boredom.
Previously, girls always visited each other with their knitting needles.
Don't know where to escape from loneliness? Start knitting something with a complex pattern. Then any call will make you simply growl with irritation.
It’s hard to even imagine the pride a girl feels from creating something with her own hands for the first time.
A woman who knows how to knit also knows how to be patient.
The greatest envy is experienced by a woman looking at a complex openwork weave made by a friend.
The granddaughter will never forget her grandmother, who taught her to do needlework.
Knitting becomes work, skill, and pleasure.
Do you want to take your mind off unpleasant thoughts? Take knitting needles and try to learn how to use them.
No one pays attention to the needlewoman. She notices everything.
A woman with a ball always seems cozy and homely to men.
Inexperienced people think that only winter things are created with knitting needles.
Mom received clumsy mittens as a gift on March 8th. You couldn't even fit your hands into them. But she was as happy as if she had been given gloves made of the best leather. After all, their little daughter knitted them together. She gave her the knitting needles herself.
Expensive yarn does not yet become the key to a beautiful thing.
After 30 years of experience, a woman can create an entire wardrobe using wool.
The purchased item has no soul.

Quotes about creativity

Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin

I present to you a selection of quotes about creativity .

Many people are now engaged in some kind of creativity, but few are inclined to experience the pangs of creativity .

Quotes are summarized by topic: the creator, creativity is, man and creativity, life and creativity, the secrets of creativity, the creator and the created, the process of creativity, inspiration, soul and creativity, the great, the prerequisites for creativity, the sources of creativity, happiness and creativity, the pangs of creativity, women and creativity, creative skill, the joy of creativity, love and creativity, etc.

Creator

To create and not to appropriate, to create and not to boast, being an elder, not to command - this is what is called the deepest de. (Lao Tzu)

The creator of poverty does not know. Far from worldly bounties, He is not busy with the acquisition of riches, He gets them from the soul. (L. Boleslavsky)

Dogmatism is the integrity of the spirit; he who creates is always dogmatic, always boldly choosing and creating what he has chosen. (N. Berdyaev)

A real poet himself involuntarily and with suffering burns and burns others. And that's the whole point. (L. Tolstoy)

Essentially, the poet’s entire work comes down to the execution, the physical fulfillment of a spiritual (not his own) task. Just like the whole will of the poet is the working will to realize it. (There is no individual creative will.) (M. Tsvetaeva)

I am a writer, a man who calls everything by name, who takes away the fragrance from a living flower. (A. Blok)

One part of me constantly worries that I am an ordinary loser, while the other fancies himself as the Lord God. (D. Lennon)

The first man who threw a curse instead of a stone was the creator of civilization. (S. Freud)

A master is known through self-restraint. (I. Goethe)

Great talent requires great hard work. (P. Tchaikovsky)

Nothing infuriates us more than some twitchy drug addict, lazy slacker or filthy pervert who suddenly creates a masterpiece. As if by chance. (C. Palahniuk)

Writers are desperate people, and when they have hope, they stop being writers. (C. Bukowski)

Writers are champions among neurotics who, through creativity, unsuccessfully try to cope with their many fears, anxieties and complexes. (M. Labkovsky)

After all, writing is not a means of self-healing - it is just a weak attempt on the path to self-healing. (H. Murakami)

An extraordinary person wants to leave behind a world different from the one into which he appeared - better, enriched by his own creativity. To do this, he is ready to sacrifice most of the joys or even all the joys that an ordinary person enjoys. (A. and B. Strugatsky)

Creativity is...

All creativity is essentially prayer. (I. Brodsky)

Everything that causes the transition from non-existence to being is creativity. (Plato)

Creativity is a common work done by the solitary. (M. Tsvetaeva)

Scripture is industrious idleness. (I. Goethe)

The goal of creativity is dedication, not hype, not success. (B. Pasternak)

The work of great artists is always a beautiful garden with flowers and thistles, and not a beautiful park with compacted paths. (A. Blok)

Creativity is a passion that dies in form. (M. Prishvin)

Creation! Here is a great salvation from suffering, a great relief of life! (F. Nietzsche)

Always remain unsatisfied: this is the essence of creativity. (J. Renard)

Creativity is, first of all, the complete concentration of all spiritual and physical nature. It captures not only vision and hearing, but also all five senses of a person; it also captures the body, thought, mind, will, feeling, memory, and imagination. (K. Stanislavsky)

Painting is an activity for the blind. The artist paints not what he sees, but what he feels. (P. Picasso)

To create is nothing other than to believe. (R. Rolland)

Creativity is a special type of activity; it really brings satisfaction. (S. Maugham)

I think that this is the meaning of creative writing: to depict ordinary things as they will be reflected in the gentle mirrors of future times. (V. Nabokov)

Creativity is the direct unity of thought and deed, and is realized only in continuous activity, in creation. Creativity is identical with creation, for outside creation there is no creativity. (E. Dembovsky)

Art is the process of passing the forces of nature through the human being. (A. Platonov)

Creativity is a riddle that the artist asks himself. (S. Jerzy Lec)

Creativity simply brings things together. When you ask a creative person how he managed to do something, he feels a little guilty because he didn't really do anything on purpose, he just saw it. This seems obvious to him. (S. Jobs)

Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice. All sorts of petty and selfish feelings interfere with creativity. (V. Kachalov)

Man and creativity

Two things justify human existence on earth: love and creativity. (I. Brodsky)

The greatness of man lies in the fact that he is the only one of all creations who can turn a moment into eternity. (I. Goethe)

In the depths of man lies a creative force that is capable of creating what should be, which will not give us peace and rest until we express it outside of us in one way or another. (I. Goethe)

Art is always a matter of the whole person. Therefore, it is fundamentally tragic. (F. Kafka)

Art is such a need for a person as eating and drinking. The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world. (F. Dostoevsky)

To be an artist of words, it is necessary to have the ability to rise high in soul and fall low. Then all the intermediate stages are known, and he can live in his imagination, live the lives of people standing at different levels. (L. Tolstoy)

I am sure that a bad person cannot be a good author. (N. Karamzin)

All talented people write differently, all mediocre people write the same way and even in the same handwriting. (S. Dovlatov)

In fact, the poet is much smaller and weaker than the average person. Therefore, he feels the heaviness of earthly existence much more acutely and stronger than others. For himself, his singing is just a cry. (F. Kafka)

Man is a miracle, the only miracle on earth, and all its other miracles are the results of the creativity of his will, mind, and imagination. (M. Gorky)

For most people, the punishment is having to think. The ideal job seems to them to be one that does not make any demands on the creative instinct. (G. Ford)

Both a man and a woman come to agreement with themselves only through the unity of their masculine and feminine principles. This polarity remains the basis of any creativity. (E. Fromm)

All creative ideas of a person, in general terms, appear already during his youth. (A. Hitler)

By the way, quotes about a person

Life and art

A lot of spiritual depth is needed in order to illuminate a picture taken from a despised life and elevate it to the pearl of creation. (N. Gogol)

Art is a reflection and knowledge of life; Without knowing life, you cannot create. (K. Stanislavsky)

Life simply has fewer options than art, because the material of the latter is much more flexible and inexhaustible. There is nothing more mediocre than considering creativity as the result of life, certain circumstances. (I. Brodsky)

The poet inevitably fails in all other paths of realization. Habitual, accustomed (by himself) to the absolute, he demands from life what it cannot give. (M. Tsvetaeva)

Life is not a burden, but wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame. (V. Veresaev)

I see the meaning of life in creativity, and creativity is self-sufficient and limitless! (M. Gorky)

Art makes life bearable by shrouding it in the haze of impure thinking. (F. Nietzsche)

The feeling of life as continuous novelty is the fertile soil on which art blossoms and matures. (K. Paustovsky)

If a person can live not forcedly, not automatically, but spontaneously, then he realizes himself as an active creative person and understands that life has only one meaning - life itself. (E. Fromm)

The worse life is, the better you can create, but life and profession are incompatible. (A. Blok)

Any worker, be it a writer, artist, composer, scientist, scientist or cultural worker, cannot create without being separated from social work and from life. Without impressions, delight, inspiration, without life experience - there is no creativity. (D. Shostakovich)

Good writers are closely in touch with life. Those who are mediocre only skim the surface. And the bad ones rape her and leave her torn to pieces to be eaten by flies. (R. Bradbury)

By the way, quotes about life

Secrets of creativity

I don't search, I find. (P. Picasso)

The secret was revealed to him. This is what great writers and wonderful poets, it turns out, did. That's why they became titans. They knew how to express what they thought, felt, and saw. (D. London)

You can't learn creative techniques. Every creator has his own techniques. One can only imitate higher techniques, but this leads nowhere, and one cannot penetrate into the work of the creative spirit. (I. Goncharov)

The real secret to creativity is to treat your ideas like cats—just make them follow you. (R. Bradbury)

In any work of art, great or small, everything down to the last detail depends on the design. (I. Goethe)

The secret of creativity lies in the ability to hide the sources of your inspiration. (A. Einstein)

The virtue of style is clarity. (Aristotle)

There is no need to express everything - this is the secret of entertainment. (A. Pushkin)

Create in a painting as in life - directly. (P. Picasso)

For a work to be good, you must love the main, main idea in it. So, in “Anna Karenina” I loved the idea of family... (L. Tolstoy)

Remember my testament: never invent any plot or intrigue. Take what life itself gives. Life is much richer than all our imaginations! No imagination can come up with what the most ordinary, ordinary life sometimes gives you, respect life! (F. Dostoevsky)

It is impossible to write anything sensible if you do not constantly suppress the personal in yourself. Good prose is like cleanly washed window glass. (D. Orwell)

The Creator and the Created

Every man is less than his most beautiful creation. (P. Valerie)

What my head and heart are full of must come out in the form of a drawing or a painting. (V. Van Gogh)

Painting is stronger than me and always makes me do what it wants. (P. Picasso)

Maybe art is only a branch of nature (a type of its creativity). It is certain: a work of art is a work of nature, born, and not created. (M. Tsvetaeva)

Every writer to a certain extent portrays himself in his writings, often even against his will. (I. Goethe)

Nothing can shake the following axiom in me: every creation testifies to the creator. (Voltaire)

The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face. (C. Palahniuk)

Painting is just another way of journaling. (P. Picasso)

The creators of great ideas are very dismissive of their creations and care little about their fate in the world. (L. Shestov)

I have now re-read what I just wrote, and I see that I am much smarter than what I wrote. How does it happen that what a smart person says is much more stupid than what remains in him? (F. Dostoevsky)

Not everything a great craftsman does is great. (I. Goethe)

The poet has a secret relationship with everything that he once composed, and it often contradicts what the reader thinks about a particular poem. (A. Akhmatova)

The creative process

Art is jealous; it demands that a person devote himself entirely to it. (M. Buonarotti)

Creating is like breaking through an invisible iron wall that separates everything you feel from what you are able to convey. (V. Van Gogh)

Language, the homeland and container of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for a person and becomes entirely music, not in relation to externally auditory sound, but in relation to the swiftness and power of its internal flow. (B. Pasternak)

Only the spirit fertilizes the mind. The Spirit throws into him the seed of future creation. The mind will complete the rest. (A. Saint-Exupery)

Every act of creation is initially an act of destruction. (P. Picasso)

The first stage of all creativity is self-forgetfulness. (M. Prishvin)

The impulse for creativity can fade away just as easily as it arose if left without food. (K. Paustovsky)

Poems are also divided into those that the poet can remember how he wrote them, and those that seem to have spontaneously arisen. In some, the author is doomed to hear the voice of the violin that once helped him compose them, in others - the knock of the carriage that prevented him from writing them. Poems can be associated with the smells of perfumes and flowers. (A. Akhmatova)

The service of the muses does not tolerate fuss; The beautiful should be majestic: But youth advises us slyly, And noisy dreams make us happy... (A. Pushkin)

Inspiration

Everyone is capable of creating well only what the muse inspires him to do. (Plato)

The creation of a man's hand in art can never be higher than the inspiration of his heart. (R.W. Emerson)

Our whole art lies in being able to counteract each answer with our own question before it evaporates. This jumping at you with answers is inspiration. (M. Tsvetaeva)

Inspiration is the ability to put yourself in a working state. (A. Pushkin)

When inspiration comes to me, it finds me at work. (P. Picasso)

The poet is the ruler of inspiration. He must command them. (I. Goethe)

Art gives wings and carries you far, far! (A. Chekhov)

Inspiration is born from the touch of chance to the poet's passion. (G. Derzhavin)

Inspiration is not a herring that can be pickled for many years. (I. Goethe)

Inspiration is the disposition of the soul to the living reception of impressions, and therefore to the rapid understanding of concepts, which contributes to the explanation of them. (A. Pushkin)

The layman imagines that in order to be creative one must wait for inspiration. This is a deep misconception. (I. Stravinsky)

Soul and creativity

The creator in his works must express the state of his soul. (Socrates)

The main goal of art... is to reveal, express the truth about the human soul... Art is a microscope that the artist points at the secrets of his soul and shows these secrets common to all people. (L. Tolstoy)

Art is something that is created not only by human hands, but also by something else that wells up from a source hidden in our soul. (V. Van Gogh)

The methods of creativity change, but the soul invested in creating art can never die or become obsolete. If the language of the poem can still be read, if the sculptor’s intention can be discerned from the collected fragments, then the soul of the creator has not died for us living. (V. Bryusov)

I bet if you paint what lives in your heart, this canvas will hang in a museum. (C. Palahniuk)

In the soul of every person there is a valve that opens only with poetry. (N. Nekrasov)

By the way, quotes about the soul

Great

Dream big: only big dreams have the power to touch people's souls. (M. Aurelius)

A great work of art is a painful victory of a brilliant mind over a brilliant imagination. (B. Shaw)

Great objects of art are great only because they are understandable and accessible to everyone. (L. Tolstoy)

Essentially, in order to deeply appreciate the creation of what we call genius, one must oneself possess the genius necessary for such an accomplishment. (E. Poe)

Every true piece of music has an idea. (L. van Beethoven)

Great things are not created impulsively, but by a sequence of small things merged together. (V. Van Gogh)

Only the ordinary is fabulous when it is touched by the hand of a genius. (B. Pasternak)

With a good artist you look at a beauty, with a genius - she looks at you. (M. Zhvanetsky)

Prerequisites for creativity

You should write only when you can’t help but write. (L. Tolstoy)

Writer's itch is incurable. (A. Chekhov)

All creativity begins as an individual desire for self-improvement and, ideally, for holiness. (I. Brodsky)

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing. (P. Picasso)

I close my eyes to see better. (P. Gauguin)

Imagination means nothing if the one who has it is inactive. (C. Chaplin)

Don't be proud - create. God created the world in a moment of humility. (G. Landau)

Where there is life and freedom, there is room for new creativity. (S. Bulgakov)

For artistic creativity to achieve great victories, it requires broad mental horizons. (V. Bryusov)

To refuse risk means to refuse creativity. (A. Makarenko)

Sources of creativity

They write not because they want to compete with anyone, but because the soul longs to be poured out with sensations. (N. Gogol)

Where do ideas come from? Only from persistent searches bordering on madness. To do this, a person must have the ability to suffer and not lose passion for long periods. (C. Chaplin)

Male failure is as powerful a source of poetry as love. (A. Platonov)

Art is born only from grief. And never from joy. (C. Palahniuk)

Those who always look down will never see a rainbow. (C. Chaplin)

What motivates me? I think most creative people are eager to express gratitude for enjoying the fruits of the work others have done before them. (S. Jobs)

If only you knew from what rubbish poems grow without knowing shame... (A. Akhmatova)

Happiness and creativity

Happiness is in the joy of achievement, in the nervous trembling of creative effort. (V. Van Gogh)

A person who has an innate talent experiences the greatest happiness when he uses this talent. (I. Goethe)

Happiness is spending yourself on the creation of your own hands, which will live even after your death. (A. Saint-Exupery)

There is only one happiness: to create. Only the one who creates is alive. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are creative joys... (R. Rolland)

He who loves the muses and is loved by them will not be idle in solitude and will always find something pleasant to do. He carries within himself a source of pleasure, his creative power, which makes him happy. (N. Karamzin)

Writing bad poems makes a person much happier than reading the most beautiful poems. (G. Hesse)

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The pangs of creativity

The thought flies, but the words come at a pace. This is the whole drama of the writer. (A. Green)

Creativity for the artist is suffering, through which he frees himself for new suffering. He is not a giant, but only a motley bird locked in the cage of his own existence. (F. Kafka)

I have been tormented by Tantalus all my life. All my life I suffer because I cannot express what I want... how to say about all this beauty, how to convey these colors, behind this yellow forest there are oak trees, their color, which changes the color of the sky... What a torment is our writing craft... And what a torment find the sound, the melody of the story - the sound that determines everything that follows! (I. Bunin)

Women and creativity

Could Biche, like Dante, create, Or could Laura glorify the heat of love? I taught women to speak... But, God, how can I silence them! (A. Akhmatova)

All women want to be dealt with only by them; they will rebel, they will not tolerate a man absorbed in a great cause for ten days. This is why women love fools. The fool gives them all his time, deals only with them, thereby proving to his ladies that they are loved. Let a man of genius give them his heart, his fortune, but if he does not devote all his time to them, the noblest woman will not believe that he loves her. (O. Balzac)

By the way, quotes about women

Creative excellence

The artist's most important tool, which is formed through constant training, is faith in his ability to create miracles when necessary. (M. Rothko)

The highest degree of skill of a writer is to express a thought in an image. (O. Balzac)

Only what is written with difficulty is easy to read. (V. Zhukovsky)

You need to work on technique insofar as you must be able to better, more accurately and more seriously express what you feel; and the less verbose your manner of expression is, the better. (V. Van Gogh)

The joy of creativity

One can love poetry without caring about any fame, or even about the participation of those whose approval is dear. The sweetness of a poetic creation is its own reward. (V. Zhukovsky)

There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating. (N. Gogol)

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for that all other pleasures no longer exist. (A. Chekhov)

Only in creativity there is joy - everything else is dust and vanity. (A. Koni)

In fact, the creator usually experiences only grief. (L. Shestov)

Love and creativity

Love is creativity. Always creativity. We love in others what is not in us, if this is not in others, we invent, introduce, make people better than they really are. (V. Astafiev)

When two people love each other, when they are happy and cheerful and one or both create something truly good, they attract people as irresistibly as a bright lighthouse attracts migratory birds at night. (E. Hemingway)

By the way, quotes about love

Peace and creativity

In order for a thought to transform the world, it must first transform the life of its creator. (A. Camus)

Everything that exists in the world is so inferior to what is happening in the artist’s solitary cell that I myself don’t look at anything, and the world seems not for me at all. I don't even hear his noise. (N. Gogol)

The task of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. We must grasp the mind, meaning, appearance of things and beings. (O. Balzac)

By the way, quotes about peace

Freedom of creativity

I lost the most important thing for an artist - freedom of creativity, because I allowed myself to be enslaved by imposed ideas of what an artist should be. Many die for this reason: they become drunkards, like Dylan Thomas, go crazy, like Van Gogh, or die from a venereal disease, like Gauguin. (D. Lennon)

Every artist who depicts the sky as green and the grass as blue must be sterilized. (A. Hitler)

Creator's message

Art without a message is like an empty envelope. (H.A. Livraga)

The writers whom we call eternal or simply good and who intoxicate us have one common and very important sign: they are going somewhere and they invite you there. (A. Chekhov)

Every writer, especially a novelist, whether he admits it or not, has a “message”, and all his work, down to the smallest detail, is determined by it. All art is propaganda. (D. Orwell)

Loneliness and creativity

Without great solitude, serious work is impossible. (P. Picasso)

Loneliness in creativity is a difficult thing. Better bad criticism than nothing. (A. Chekhov)

I know that everything that is good and priceless (literature, love, a sincere idea) all grows on the basis of suffering and loneliness. (A. Platonov)

Solitude is the natural refuge of all thinkers: it inspires all poets, it creates artists, it inspires geniuses. (J. Lacordaire)

By the way, quotes about loneliness

Sunset and creativity

Poems are not written - they happen, Like feelings or a sunset. The soul is a blind accomplice. I didn’t write it - that’s what happened. (A. Voznesensky)

I am a departed day, of which there were few in your memory, my dreaming brother. I am the pre-evening luminary, the victorious fiery sunset. (K. Balmont)

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Beauty and creativity

The source of poetry is beauty. (N. Gogol)

What a joy it is to admire some object and, finding it beautiful, think about it, remember it and then say: I will draw it, and I will work until it comes to life under my hand. (V. Van Gogh)

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Brevity

Brevity is the soul of wit. (A. Chekhov)

Precision and brevity are the first virtues of prose. It requires thought and thought, without which brilliant expressions serve nothing. (A. Pushkin)

Literature is the art of avoiding words. (M. Zhvanetsky)

Books and creativity

It is not at all so easy to find a book that has taught us as much as a book written by ourselves. (F. Nietzsche)

A good book is one in which the writer says what he should, does not say what he should not, and says what he should. (Aristotle)

By the way, quotes about books

Creative Power

The creative power of painting lies in the fact that it creates thoughts. (V. Van Gogh)

Words descend on thoughts breathing with power like pearls. (M. Lermontov)

Creativity requires courage. (A. Matisse)

Eternity and creativity

Every true talent, paying tribute to the century, also creates for eternity. (N. Karamzin)

There is no better consolation in old age than the knowledge that you managed to translate all the power of youth into creations that do not age. (A. Schopenhauer)

Destiny of the created

Manuscripts don't burn. (M. Bugakov)

The work is a flawed design. (A. Schnittke)

The creator of a book is the author, the creator of its destiny is society. (V. Hugo)

About miscellaneous

Good taste is the worst enemy of creativity. (P. Picasso)

Insomnia is the cradle of creativity. (I. Shevelev)

As we can see, quotes about creativity primarily touched on the topics of the creator himself and his relationship with creation, people and creativity, life and creativity, the secrets of creativity. Despite many studies, creativity remains a rather mysterious and difficult to formalize phenomenon .

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Ball, knitting needles, wool

Girls willingly post statuses about knitting, funny and ironic, on their pages. They laugh at those who have not yet dared to master such a pleasant form of needlework.

If you have a cat, you are unlikely to be able to sit quietly over a ball.
Winter is in vain if a couple of scarves are not knitted.
Previously, every woman took needlework with her to work so as not to get bored during breaks.
What you create is what you will wear.
Only in the movies do old ladies doze over knitting. In real life, you are unlikely to fall asleep with knitting needles in your hands.
The hardworking grandmother tied up her entire family, including cats and dogs.
Beginners make scarves, advanced ones make socks, and experienced ones make mittens. The first level is sweaters, the highest is a suit. Super-knowledge - a dress for going out.
A defect in a self-made thing is called a highlight.
In the old days, the villain in a horror movie wouldn't get very far. After all, every woman had knitting needles at hand.
If there is a grandmother in the family, then no one will be left without warm socks.
Handicrafts – activity and relaxation in 1 bottle.
Knitting is a drug. I tried it once - and for the rest of my life.
For some reason, girls who love to weave nets from wool are afraid of spiders.
Stock up on yarn in the summer so that you always have warm clothes on hand in winter.
A 90-year-old grandmother won the knitting championship. Her experience allowed her to create 5 rows in 2 minutes.
Previously, handicrafts were not considered creativity. Soon the ability to write with a pen will be considered creativity.
A woman sitting with knitting needles in the summer is preparing a sweater for the New Year as a gift to her husband.
A girl who knows how to handle knitting needles will not be left without elegant clothes.
A new type of needlework with a complex pattern and style is more exciting than any gambling game.
In the frost, the hands holding the wool will be warm, and the knees under the knitted rows will be warm, and the soul over the knitting needles will rejoice.
Women live longer than men because they know how to knit.
Knitting in summer and knitting in winter differ only in that hands sweat in hot weather.

As many women as there are, there are as many knitting options. There will always be a craftswoman whose mastery of knitting needles is the envy of everyone. Therefore, statements on such a topic are never boring.