Quotes About Creativity

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

I should have blown this mic like I said I might Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.