Quotes About Creativity

the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue

For the plan grows under the author's hand; new thoughts occur to him in the act of writing; he has not worked out the argument to the end before he begins.

If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?

Some say there are nine Muses. Count again. Behold the tenth: Sappho of Lesbos.

I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them.

There is no sameness of existence, but the new mortality is always taking the place of the old. This is the reason why parents love their children—for the sake of immortality; and this is why men love the immortality of fame. For the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue, such as poets and other creators have invented.

Then I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them.

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

Yes, if he is to have true music in him.

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

For in this way the God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods by whom they are severally possessed.

tanto con la riqueza como con la indigencia resultan peores los productos de las artes y peores también los que las practican.

Mais on ne saurait mieux le faire qu'avec une

Handwriting is the shackle of the mind.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Arts like carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher than music, which for the most part is mere guess-work.

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

Conocí desde luego que no es la sabiduría la que guía a los poetas, sino ciertos movimientos de la naturaleza y un entusiasmo semejante al de los profetas y adivinos; que todos dicen muy buenas cosas, sin comprender nada de lo que dicen.

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

I'm Lush Rimbaud, and I refuse to shut up or die.

does not ingenuity consist in the finding or creating of connections between apparently extraneous orders of ideas?)

A me interessavano di più le storie della chimica solitaria, inerme e appiedata, a misura d'uomo, che con poche eccezioni è stata la mia: ma è stata anche la chimica dei fondatori, che non lavoravano in équipe ma soli, in mezzo all'indifferenza del loro tempo, per lo più senza guadagno, e affrontavano la materia senza aiuti, col cervello e con le mani, con la ragione e la fantasia.