Quotes about Creativity
Since the most creative element in our person, the superior factor in our entire entity, is the mind
— Norman Vincent Peale
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
— Oscar Wilde
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
— Oscar Wilde
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
— Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
— Oscar Wilde
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
— Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
— Oscar Wilde
Genius lasts longer than beauty
— Oscar Wilde
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
— Oscar Wilde
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
— Oscar Wilde
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
— Oscar Wilde
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
— Oscar Wilde