Quotes About Creativity

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

We of the craft (poets) are all crazy.

The power of thought is the magic of the mind.

if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion.

No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don't I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earth-quake-they say Poets never or rarely go mad...but are generally so near it-that I cannot help thinking rhyme is so far useful in anticipating & preventing the disorder.

A drop of ink can make a million think.

The rhyme obliges me to this; sometimes Monarchs are less imperative than rhymes)

Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation - [Keats] is always frigging his imagination. - I don't mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor any thing else but a Bedlam of vision produced by raw pork and opium.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. When we break up under the heavy years and go down into eternity with all that is ours our thoughts like small lost rafts float on awhile upon Oblivion's sea. They will not carry much over those tides, our names and a phrase or two and little else.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another's labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science -- it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong," joked Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal and the former president of the Royal Society, at Wired 2013.

I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.