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Quotes About Creativity

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.
~ Peter Weiss
Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
~ Plato
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
~ Olga Kurylenko
Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
~ Olive Schreiner
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
~ Rachel Gibson
I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.
~ Ralph Lauren
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
~ Richard Donner
A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!
~ Robert Genn
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
~ Robert Henri
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.
~ Sam Shepard
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
~ Samuel Johnson
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
~ Sean Connery
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
~ Siegbert Tarrasch
When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me
~ Smokey Robinson
Men who not religious or artists are fools.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.
~ Terry Pratchett
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
~ Theodor Adorno
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
~ Tina Fey
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
~ Tom Stoppard
The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.
~ Vachel Lindsay
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.
~ Vladimir Nabokov