Quotes About Creativity

All men are at last of a size; and true art is only possible, on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere. Fair play, and an open field, and freshest laurels to all who have won them! But heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature. Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere, and beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation.

In the words of a great writer, we find our own neglected thoughts.

Whilst thus the poet animates nature with his own thoughts, he differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth.

Every artist was first an amateur

En ese autoengaño, su genio deserta, su musa lo abandona. Se queda sin creatividad, sin esperanzas. Confía en ti mismo.

Literature is a heap of nouns and verbs enclosing an intuition or two

I hate quotes: tell me what you know.

The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Language is fossil poetry

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is health of every man.

Nu merge pe drumul b?t?torit. În schimb, mergi pe acolo pe unde nu s-a mai c?lcat È™i las? o urm?.

Y se expresaron con sus propias palabras, no con las palabras de los demás hombres

The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

They are lonely; the spirit of their writing and conversation is lonely; they repel influences; they shun general society; they incline to shut themselves in their chamber in the house, to live in the country rather than in the town, and to find their tasks and amusements in solitude.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness." —D. A. Carson

Create art. Not just an art, but thermo fucking nuclear art.

If musicians and artists have no absolutes, they end up caring more about the way the thing is told than about the thing itself, and they slide deeper and deeper till it's their means rather than the ends that matter.

IS STRANGER THAN FICTION," IT IS SAID. G. K. Chesterton, with his ever-ready wit, told us why that is so: "It is because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

When hard reason fails, leave it to the poets.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.