Quotes About Creativity

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until I clear my head, or think of another book idea.

I want to put some effort into a bunch of different types of videos. I don't think I'm gonna do 'Man On The Street' messing with people, I don't think I'm gonna do over-the-top wacky comedy.

If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

Man is a tool-making animal

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Art is man determined to die sane.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?