Quotes About Creativity

I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

the adventure of the soul among the masterpieces.

Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.

Les plus beaux livres sont ceux qui n'ont jamais été écrits.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

Mexico is the most surrealist country in the world.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

But realism in art can only be achieved in one way—through artifice.

All films are born free and equal.

The sound of a windshield-wiper against a page of Diderot is all it took to turn it into Racinian dialogue

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

La vie est autre que ce qu'on écrit.

The imaginary is that which tends to become real.

The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine. (Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.)

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.