Quotes About Creativity

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Art is the signature of man.

First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.