Quotes About Creativity

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. 

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.

No artist has ethical sympathies.

now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Wer nicht auf seine Weise denkt, denkt überhaupt nicht.

The is nothing that art cannot express

We look to the archaeologist for the materials, to the artist for the method.

Ningún artista es morboso. El artista está capacitado para expresarlo todo.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.

The public is wonderfully tolerant; it forgives everything except genius. Life

Leave us some unreality. Do not make us too offensively sane.

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

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity

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.

Creo que el arte oculta al artista más que lo descubre

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With