Creative Impulse

Famous quotes containing the words creative impulse, creative and/or impulse:

    “Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    “But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that at times strangely wills and works for itself.... If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.”
    —Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

    “If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)