Quotes About Creativity

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen over their thoughts and didn't allow one small insincerity to creep in.

T.S. Eliot once wrote, "Immature poets borrow. Mature poets steal.

Cher Paul, the artist must always ask himself, am I painting the surface only, or am I revealing the eternal soul of my subjects? Without this, we only add to the agony. We too would be merely using the prostitutes—and worse, for we do not pay them.

My friend, I thank you for weeping over my painting. I have waited more than fifty years for such a compliment. I painted it when I was as young as you, during a period of darkness, a time when I believed there was no love in the world. From then on I could paint nothing. God speed you on your journey. There is love in the world. You will find it.

Culture is the last refuge, the sanctuary, the human place in the midst of the surrounding dehumanization. Through the arts man is able to know himself, even if only on the intuitive level. He senses his own worth, even when he cannot articulate it.

Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

People have often told us that what we wanted to do couldn't be done. Our success is due, in part, to not just an ability but a willingness to look at things differently. I believe opportunity is part instinct and part immersion—in an industry, a subject, or an area of expertise. Dell is proof that people can learn to recognize and take advantage of opportunities that others are convinced don't exist.

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

The truth is no excuse for a boring story".

If I took my time, sampled every possibility, eventually I'd hit on the perfect combination and come into my own.

For that fine madness still he did retainWhich rightly should possess a poet's brain.

Had in him those brave translunary thingsThat the first poets had.

A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of human creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.

A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

Creativity thinks up new things. Innovation does new things.

A good life is like good jazz: it has rhythm.

If you stop to think about it, you'll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

As a general rule, when something becomes useful, it ceases to be beautiful." 2 THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, 1811–1872