Quotes about Creativity
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
— Pablo Picasso
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
— James A. Garfield
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.
— John Malkovich
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
— Samuel Johnson
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
— Benjamin Disraeli
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
— John Updike
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
— John Updike
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
— Jim Rohn
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
— Peter Kreeft
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
— Marty Rubin