Quotes About Creativity

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Nature constantly imitates art.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.