Quotes about Creativity
Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.
- John Keats
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain … When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be
- John Keats
Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
- John Lennon
You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
- John Lennon
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
- Robert Frost
If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
- St. Jerome
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
- CS Lewis
Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.
- Pope Benedict XVI
To write for children at all is an act of faith.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Great art picks up where nature ends.
- Marc Chagall
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
- John Milton