Quotes About Creativity

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.