Quotes About Creativity

No one ever says, "This piece of creative work is crap, but they made it in a couple of weeks, so let's go and check it out.

It doesn't matter what sex or sexuality, how you identify or who you fancy - it matters not one whit. What do you do in life? What do you create? What do you add to the human existence - that is what matters.

Une des conquêtes préliminaires dans l'étude du cerveau humain est de comprendre qu'une de ses supériorités sur l'ordinateur est de pouvoir travailler avec de l'insuffisant et du flou (...). Il faut reconnaître des phénomènes, comme liberté ou créativité, inexplicables hors du cadre complexe qui seul permet leur apparition. p50

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Give them what you wish of it, what you think will not harm them, but do not feel aggrieved if they laugh at you.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

But when I saw these sleek, shiny carcasses shimmering in the sunlight as they emerged from the ocean, shaking their giant heads; when I saw the waters roll from their sinuous bodies in miniature waterfalls as they glided hither and thither, now upon the surface, now half submerged; as I saw them meet, open-mouthed, hissing and snorting, in their titanic and interminable warring I realized how futile is man's poor, week imagination by comparison with Nature's incredible genius.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

He is happy whom the Muses love. For though a man has sorrow and grief in his soul, yet when the servant of the Muses sings, at once he forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles. Such

I even wrote a white-bear poem. It began Ghost bear wanders, always alone; king of the north, dispensing death from his traveling throne. It was shortly after this effort that I decided I wouldn't be a poet after all.

The cerebellum, she remarked, is not infrequently the seat of literary emotions

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.

You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of colour you are using today. It's a part of your cleverness to be able to produce premeditated effects extemporaneously.

You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of color you are using today.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

he could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them!