Quotes About Creativity

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.