Quotes About Creativity

Like what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

poets have the spiritual fire within them; they are of the aetherial force, perhaps of the after-life. Who knows?

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.

The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.

I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work. Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

What is precious to us in an author's work is the labor of his soul and not the architectural structure in which he packs his thoughts and feelings.

My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…

A writer is precious and necessary for us only to the extent to which he reveals to us the inner labour of his soul.

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Der Mensch, der einen wirklich künstlerischen Eindruck empfängt, hat das Gefühl, dass er das, was ihm die Kunst enthüllt, bereits kannte, aber außer Stande war, den Ausdruck dafür zu finden.

Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.