Quotes about Creativity

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Dreams are necessary to life.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.

A word after a word after a word is power.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding.