Quotes about Creativity

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

The only artists I have ever known, who are personally delightful, are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfect uninteresting in what they are.

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination

Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.

I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists

For the past is what man should not have been.  The present is what man ought not to be.  The future is what artists are.

The art of living. The only really Fine Art we have produced in modern times.

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.