Quotes About Creativity

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.