Quotes About Creativity

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Every man is a new method.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.