Quotes About Creativity

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

The spiritual disposition of a poet inclines to catastrophe.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you—and His experiments always succeed. The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to "set your words on fire" for His glory.