Quotes About Creativity

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination

Harry, said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, 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. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.