Quotes About Creativity

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

He must be the only man alive who can eat an apple through a tennis racket.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.