Quotes about Creativity
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
- Alice Walker
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
- Toni Morrison
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
- James Howell
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
- William Faulkner
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
- William Faulkner
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
- Albert Camus
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
- John Milton
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
- Anonymous
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.
- Ronald Reagan
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.
- Pope John Paul II
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
- Bill Bailey