Creativity Quotes · Page 13

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“They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue…”

— Rollo May

“Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a…”

— John Galsworthy

“The price of contributing to the greatest literature the world has ever seen is often struggle and penury: art is still too often its own reward.”

— Anthony Burgess

“It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.”

— David Hume

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”

— David Hume

“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”

— Ben Jonson

“If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.”

— Ben Jonson

“There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”

— Thomas Campbell

“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare—rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?”

— Walter de la Mare

“For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.”

— Walter de la Mare

“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts…”

— Louis Pasteur

“With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall…”

— Omar Khayyam

“Works of art express space as opportunity for movement and action.”

— John Dewey

“Artist and perceiver alike begin with what may be called a total seizure, an inclusive qualitative whole not yet articulated, not distinguished into members.”

— John Dewey

“What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?”

— Louis Sullivan

“The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of…”

— Louis Sullivan

“When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do.”

— Louisa May Alcott