Quotes About Creativity

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

I like men-inspired outfits.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Children who are visual thinkers will often be good at drawing, other arts, and building things with building toys such as Legos.