Quotes About Creativity

excrementitious intelligence...

He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur.

When all is said Dumas fils (or is it Dumas père?) is right. After God Shakespeare has created most.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Saas and taas and specis bizaas.

We are right, he said, and the others are wrong. To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand- that is art.

postmodernism asserts the liberating insignificance of art

He is a bold man who, in his writing, dares to alter---even further to distort---what he has seen and heard.

Upwap and dump em

In a mass culture, those few ideas or feelings unique to a person are easily deformed into conventional clichés: otherwise, everyone would be an artist.

maestro di color che sanno.

Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences.

Our wholemole millwheeling vicociclometer, a tetradoma-tional gazebocroticon (the "Mamma Lujah" known to every schoolboy scandaller, be he Matty, Marky, Lukey or John-a-Donk)

Rhythm begins, you see. I hear. A catalectic tetrameter of iambs march ing.

Don't know what poetry is even. Must be in a certain mood.

a man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery

Tineretea are un sfârsit: sfârÈ™itul e aici. Nu va mai fi niciodat?. O È™tii prea bine. ?i atunci? Scrie-o, blestematule, scrie-o! La ce altceva eÈ™ti bun?

He was not convinced of the truth of the saying [] "The poet is born, not made" but he was quite sure of the truth of this at least: [] "The poem is made not born.

And he has pipettishly bespilled himself from his foundingpen as illspent from inkinghorn.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What beautiful is is another question

As you sing it it's a study. That letter selfpenned to one's other, that neverperfect everplanned?

The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

Non solo un pittore della domenica, ma un essere umano della domenica.

You could see into your own soul with total honesty of vision and find the wherewithal to get it down, that steady hand.