Quotes About Creativity

science can get along with talent, but art requires genius.

rules were not made for geniuses;

Every topic begins as philosophy, turns to science and ends as art.

Only lunatics can be completely original

One work of genius is worth a thousand commentaries.

The fundamental condition of genius is an abnormal predominance of sensibility and irritability over reproductive power.

Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are . Go play.

What a strange instrument a tuba is. I wonder how many different shapes they twisted that metal into until they realized that a tuba's shape was the exact one they needed to make that exact sound.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea forever.

our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think.

Another friend of mine defines writing as: Torturing your characters for fun and profit.

You have to realize just because things don't have tangible reality, that doesn't mean they don't exist. Ideas are just as real as people and property. Ideas have changed the world profoundly to an extent most people never approach - Father Beale

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

My work is visionary or imaginative. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care...

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.

The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.

Imitation is criticism.

I know that this world is a world of Imagination and Vision.

Art is the Tree of Life, Science is the Tree of Death.