Quotes About Creativity

L'inspiration, c'est l'occasion du génie.

Le hasard est le plus grand romancier du monde : pour être fécond, il n'y a qu'à l'étudier.

Los hombres que tienen tantas cosas que expresar en bellas obras soñadas durante mucho tiempo sienten cierto desprecio por la conversación, trato en el que el espíritu se rebaja al degradarse.

L'amour a ses intuitions, comme le génie a les siennes.

In 1839, for the first time Balzac mentioned in a letter to his publisher the expression La Comédie humaine and the title is recorded in the contract he signed in 1841.

The handsome things she had admired from her youth up she suddenly suspected of age and absurdity. In short, she felt that fear which takes possession of nearly all authors when they read over a work they have hitherto thought proof against every exacting or blase critic: new situations seem timeworn; the best-turned and most highly polished phrases limp and squint; metaphors and images grin or contradict each other; whatsoever is false strikes the eye.

Art can go no further than this. Art has risen above Nature, since Nature only gives her creatures a few brief years of life.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

La hardiesse du vrai s'élève à des combinaisons interdites à l'art, tant elles sont invraisemblables ou peu décentes, à moins que l'écrivain ne les adoucisse, ne les émonde, ne les châtre.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

And don't let anyone trick you into playing bass. The world's got enough chick bass players Seriously, though. Why play bass when you can play guitar?

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

The limbs of a dismembered poet.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

As in painting, so in poetry.

A picture is a poem without words.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

But if you name me among the lyric bards, I shall strike the stars with my exalted head.