Quotes About Creativity

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

All great men are partially inspired.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, 'progress' would become mechanical and trivial.

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.