Quotes About Creativity

schon im Bette drängen sich die Ideen zu dir meine Unsterbliche Geliebte, hier und da freudig, dann wieder traurig. Vom Schicksaale abwartend, ob es unß erhört...

Such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, and it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Everything that is called life should be sacrificed to the sublime and be a sanctuary of art

Sacrifice once and for all the trivialities of social life to your art.

Dem Manne muß die Musik Feuer aus dem Geist schlagen.

Is it not beautiful?

La música es el vino que inspira nuevas creaciones y yo soy Baco que prensa este delicioso vino para los hombres y los embriaga espiritualmente

La música es una manifestación superior a toda sabiduría de la filosofía.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.

Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit.

All that society can achieve in these fields is to provide an environment which does not put insurmountable obstacles in the way of genius's and makes the common man free enough from material concerns to become interested in things other than mere breadwinning... the foremost social means of making a man more human is to fight poverty. Wisdom and science and the arts the way of genius and makes the common man free enough thrive better in a world of affluence than among needy peoples.

The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air.

Production is "anarchistic.

If people never did silly things, then nothing intelligent would ever get done.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.