Creativity Quotes

"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."

"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."

"The creative mind refuses to accept the world as it is; it insists on imagining it anew."

"Creativity blooms in the mind that refuses to follow the well-worn path."

"That which is creative must create itself."

"There is a creative force in every human being."

"In the quiet moment lies the seed of creation."

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

"The creative spirit cannot be extinguished by the material world."

"Were there one whose fires true genius kindles and whose struggles of the heart"

"My imagination was vivid yet my power of analysis was not equally developed."

"Creativity is the voice of the spirit seeking expression."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in his work."

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious work on the serious subjects of the day without despairing of ever being able to do it as they ought to be done."

"Emotion recollected in tranquility is the essence of poetry."

"In solitude lies the greatest creativity."

"Creativity is the courage to let go of certainty."

"Creativity is the soul's rebellion against conformity."

"If you would create something, you must be something."

"Creation is the eternal delight of God."

"The imagination that stirs within us is the organ of meaning."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist."

"Endymion will be a test, a trial of my Powers of Imagination."

"The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man."

"That which is creative must create itself."

"The Imagination with me is a very sensitive, delicate, poetic Essence."

"Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme."

"Emotion recollected in tranquility is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling."