Quotes About Creativity

Genius: the superhuman in man.

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.