Quotes about Creativity

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.

I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.

Art isn't meaningless. - It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. - In other words, Dick, you're playing before a grandstand peopled with ghosts. - Give a good show anyhow. - On the contrary, I'd feel, it being a meaningless world, why write? The very attempt to give it purpose is purposeless. Well, even admitting all that, be a decent pragmatist and grant a poor man the instinct to live. Would you want everyone to accept that sophistic rot?

I doubt if, after all, I'll ever write anything again worth putting in print.

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.

She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love letters.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.