Quotes About Creativity

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.