Creativity Quotes

"Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone."

"Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius."

"Man is, above all, he who creates."

"We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire."

"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young."

"The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest... ...

"I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

"If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!"