Quotes about Creativity

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.

If you want to make a Christian work, then be Christian, and simply try to make a beautiful work, into which your heart will pass; do not try to "make Christian.

The greatest task of a human being, your greatest mission in life? To find and sing your own song … to the glory of God.

Of the three traditional ways of making a living — mud, blood, and grease — preaching involves all three: the mud pies of creativity, the blood bank of living in the Word, and the grease pit of hard work and dirty hands.

And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?

You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret: All the best people are.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.