Quotes on “creativity”

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.