Quotes About Creativity

The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams.

The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.

Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed.

Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

These beings have no other profession than to cultivate the idea of beauty in their person, to satisfy their passions, to feel and to think.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.

All great poets become naturally, fatally, critics.

What is art? Prostitution.

I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not without poetry.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.