Quotes About Creativity

Non vi sono libri morali o libri immorali. Vi sono libri scritti bene e libri scritti male, e nient'altro.

Love is a more wonderful thing than art.

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.

He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox. The praise of folly, as he went on, soared into a philosophy, and philosophy herself became young

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.

The more the public is interested in artists, the less it is interested in art. The personality of the artist is not a thing the public should know about. It is too accidental.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.

But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.

No Artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Le donne ci ispirano il desiderio di far dei capolavori e ci impediscono sempre di eseguirli

There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...

Pentru a-È›i recâÈ™tiga tinereÈ›ea trebuie doar s?-È›i repeÈ›i nebuniile.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Your days are your sonnets.

Hello, I am Oscar Wilde