Creativity Quotes

"We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary." "Music is well said to be the speech of angels" "A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life " "The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person using them." "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." "With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion" "I always dream about a pen that would be a syringe" "If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something" "If you want to work on your art, work on your life first." "Necessity is the mother of invention" "Make it new." "Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one." "Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, spheres, and the like, but equations for the human emotions." "The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth." "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music." "It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse" "The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say 'I read, therefore it writes'" "Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture" "Express yourself, don't repress yourself." "The best ideas come from examining problems that are interesting to you."