Quotes About Creativity

A few thousand Europeans, no matter how inventive their work in chemicals, or metallurgy, could not create an Industrial Revolution unless they could inspire (or borrow, or even steal) from one another;

...though many a gatherer has carried his basket through these diamond districts of the mind...

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

A writer lives at best, in a state of astonishment.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;A vapor sometime like a bear or lion,A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock,A forked mountain, or blue promontoryWith trees upon 't.

Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

Never yet did insurrection wantSuch water-colors to impaint his cause.

All impediments in fancy's courseAre motives of more fancy.

My imaginations are as foulAs Vulcan's stithy.

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.

True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

William Shakespeare

Tell me where is fancy bred,Or in the heart or in the head?How begot, how nourished?Reply, reply.

A rhapsody of words.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.