Creativity Quotes

"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!"

“All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of... ...

"I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

"Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones."