Quotes About Creativity

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.