Creativity Quotes

"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die." "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." "If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius." "Critique by creating." "The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has." "Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain" "I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men" "What I cannot create, I do not understand" "A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial until finally it becomes what everybody knows" "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book" "No man was ever great by imitation" "Language is the dress of thought" "Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active." "Art is never finished, only abandoned." "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."