Quotes about Creativity
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
- Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde
Genius lasts longer than beauty
- Oscar Wilde
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
- Oscar Wilde
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
- Oscar Wilde
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
- Oscar Wilde
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
- Oscar Wilde
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.
- Cormac McCarthy
Teaching writing is a hustle.
- Cormac McCarthy
Writing is very subconscious and the last thing I want to do is think about it.
- Cormac McCarthy
Art-speech is the only truth.
- DH Lawrence