Quotes About Creativity

How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Man is an imagining being.

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.