Quotes about Creativity
Beautiful things, as Matisse shows, always carry greetings from other worlds within them.
— John Eldredge
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
— John Keats
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
— John Keats
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
— John Keats
Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.
— John Keats
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain … When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be
— John Keats
Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
— John Lennon
You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
— John Lennon
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
— Robert Frost
If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
— St. Jerome
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
— CS Lewis