Creativity Quotes

"I believe that all art should be the expression of one's own thought and not the imitation of another's."

"To create is to be alive, to live is to create."

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing."

"A writer should write with fluency the things that are so important to you."

"No one says a word and they do not dance either."

"I cannot repeat anything that I have written."

"I like it better when there is an audience but I do like creating."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"The creative spirit cannot be constrained by convention."

"Woman is a creator as well as a creature; she has not merely to accept life but to create it."

"Creating requires the courage to be vulnerable."

"To create truthfully, one must be willing to disturb the comfortable."

"To create is to declare that one's vision matters."

"Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club."

"The creative spirit is free or it is not creative."

"Passion is the furnace that forges the sword of genius."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"Writing poetry is a way of organizing one's thoughts into sensible patterns."

"The mind without expression is like a room without windows."

"To create is to engage in a conversation with the eternal."

"Make it new."

"To break the pentameter, that was the first heave."

"The imagination does not grow by restriction."

"I have tried to write Paradise into a shape where I can see all of it at once."

"Genius is in approach. Madness is in details."

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing."

"I do not mind if they do not like it, of course, but I love it."

"Expressing oneself is not a selfish thing."

"The pleasure of writing is the pleasure of making something."

"Creativity is the expression of the soul's desire to manifest beauty."