Quotes About Creativity

A man posing for a painting.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.