Quotes About Creativity

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.

I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

But you shall not escape my iambics.