Quotes About Creativity

Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world

We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest. The

Reason respects the differences, and Imagination the similitudes of things.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world":

forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

One after another the greatest writers, poets, and artists confirm the fact that their work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

a genius of means, barren of ends

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

The dragon is a creature of the imagination, because dragons do not exist.

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

From my own experience, I can tell you that there are mornings when you sit down at the typewriter and knock out three pages in forty-five minutes, and you look at yourself in the toaster over breakfast and your head's all misshapen and pointy, and you say, "Son, you were born with talent.

and low-life cable network producers, who have never had a thought in their heads that did not come from something else they saw on cable television, are so unthreatened by me that they feel safe stealing my stuff and claiming to have had sudden strokes of genius.

It took him one minute to write. Bill stood over him, watching. "I don't know how you do that," he said. "Like the words are already inside the pen." "It's just what's in your brain," Charley said. "The way the words come to you naturally is the best way to put them down." Bill said, "The things in my head don't come in words.

Amid sparkling creativity, spectacular innovation and unprecedented wealth, growing up in the West means for many a sense of alienation and a craving for intimacy, authenticity and hope.

I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive into the Florentine light. Years vanished, decades were erased, and he was again the boy who had come here to the feast of art.

If you can imagine it, you're halfway there