Quotes about Creativity
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
- Dante Alighieri
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
- Vincent Van Gogh
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
- Aristotle
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
- Pablo Picasso
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
- James A. Garfield
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.
- John Malkovich
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
- Samuel Johnson
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
- John Updike
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
- John Updike
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
- Jim Rohn
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson