Quotes About Creativity

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

All art is quite useless.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.