Quotes About Creativity

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
(from The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1)

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

Man is, above all, he who creates.

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.

One man's creativity is another's brain damage.

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

If you're constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.