Quotes about Creativity
Art is good, but happiness is better.
— Marty Rubin
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
— Vincent Van Gogh
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
— Alice Walker
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
— Toni Morrison
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
— James Howell
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
— William Faulkner
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
— William Faulkner
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
— Albert Camus