"Creativity is the art of the impossible" — Ben Okri

"Creativity is the art of the impossible"

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89 Quotes by Ben Okri

Ben Okri has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a…
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there…
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering…
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy:…
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole…
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe,…
I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their…
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who…
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite…

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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