Quotes About Creativity

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

No bad man can be a good poet.

As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.