Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.George Orwell
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.Marilyn Monroe
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.Marilyn Monroe
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.Marilyn Monroe
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
