Quotes About Creativity

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

I do but sing because I must,And pipe but as the linnets sing.

All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one, and there is nothing above it by way of final condition.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

Art should aim at the production of individuality in the component details of its compositions.

The trouble with most photographers, and for that matter also with painters, and other people, is, that they are always trying to do something which is outside of themselves. In consequence they produce nothing that means anything to those who have the gift or intuition for truth: all else is really not worth a tinker's damn.

There's this guy called Joshua and he knows all about me. I hope he writes my biography, and puts spaceships in it

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail.

Lima lo obligaba a uno a andarse inventando trucos y aventuras para ocultar tanto miedo.