Quotes About Creativity

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

Art is science made clear.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

Pablo Picasso once remarked, 'One starts to get young at the age of sixty.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

La belleza es pura secreción de la cultura como los cálculos lo son del riñón

L'art ne vient pas coucher dans les lits qu'on a faits pour lui ; il se sauve aussitôt qu'on prononce son nom »

Ví dob?e, že provedení ur?ité skladby, zejména pomalé, vyžaduje výdej fyzické síly, ?emuž se radši vyhne. O? lepší je ležérní p?ístup - ten nedávno k dokonalosti, když zkomponoval doprovod k Ronsardovi na duši jen pro levou ruku, nebo? p?edpokládal, že sám bude prava?kou kou?it.

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

Novels are not humanitarian reports. Indeed, let us be thankful that there remains sufficient cruelty, without which beauty would not be.