Quotes About Creativity

Words are rather the drossy part of poetry; imagination the life of it.

If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.

A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?

To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.

Writing with Scissors (collecting, note-keeping, remaking)

He lik'd those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces, By plucking bon-mots from their places...

The most original wits borrow from one another.

Let's have some new clichés!

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.

I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

In this narrow sense, World War II is a radio war, and radio is clearly an important weapon of warfare. But creatively, editorially, radio is an art, a business and a science, in that order of importance.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

Riding on gardenias embracing rainbows...

she has books in her lap and ideas in her head she has colorful dreams when she reads in bed

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians, and Caesarians.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.