Quotes about Creativity
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.
— Edith Wharton
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
— Edith Wharton
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
— Edith Wharton
Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stenciled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?
— Edith Wharton
It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.
— Edith Wharton
He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.
— Edith Wharton
What is originality in art? Perhaps it is easier to define what it is not and this may be done by saying that it is never a willful rejection of what has been accepted as the necessary laws of various forms of art. Thus in reasoning originality relies not in discarding the necessary laws of thought, but in using them to express new intellectual conceptions. In poetry originality consists not in discarding the necessary laws of rhythm but in finding new rhythms within the limits of those laws.
— Edith Wharton
The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order. This power is called imagination.
— Edmund Burke
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
— Albert Camus
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
— Albert Camus
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
— Albert Camus
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
— Albert Einstein