Quotes About Creativity

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Life must be lived as play.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.

There is always something new out of Africa.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

Nulle dies sine linea.

There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.

I always say, waste not, want not, which is a terrible cliche the British invented during the war to get kids to eat their whole-wheat bread, but when I say it I mean, waste not money on boring old rent when it can be un-wasted on Chloe jeans.

The one question I specifically recall being asked was how a man as evil as Hitler could paint such delightful watercolors.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs kindling.

Painting is silent poetry.

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

Leonard is saying, 'Whenever I hear that a guy writes poetry I feel close to him. You know, I understand the folly.

Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?

What are you doing?" "I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me. "What's that lump inside?" "A sock egg." "A sock egg? I didn't know socks hatched from eggs." "Only the best ones do. I can't wear the cheap kind, the ones that grow on trees. They give me blisters.

Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.

"There is more joy in giving than in receiving." Never doubt the truth of our Lord's promise that whatever we give him of our creativity, our resources, our persons, will come back to us in abundance.

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?