Quotes About Creativity

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

So many poets die ere they are known, I pray you, hear me kindly for their sake. Not of the harp, but of the soul alone, Is the deep music all true minstrels make: Hear my soul's music, and I will beguile, With string and song, your festival awhile.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

A world without wonder, and a way of mind without wonder, becomes a world without imagination, and without imagination man is a poor and stunted creature. Religion, poetry, and all the arts have their sources in this upwelling of wonder and surprise. Let us thank God that so much will forever remain out of reach, safe from our inquiry, inviolate forever from our touch.

so much of James Bond was Ian Fleming himself. Ian was never able to write about anything he did not know, or any place he had not been. James Bond had been around for a long time -- as long, in fact, as Ian Fleming had been dreaming himself into fantasy situations. When he finally emerged on paper, 007 was a toughened-up younger-brother version of Ian himself: more straightforward, less interesting, the kind of young hothead Ian might have been had he not valued power above adventure.

Where there is no passion there can be no poetry.

There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten.

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.