Art & Creativity Sayings

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

The uncarved block, though small, is nowhere in the world inferior. If princes and kings could but hold on to it, all creatures would submit to them.

Who created light and darkness? Who created sleep and waking?

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

Don't eat your heart.

The Creator's wisdom is seen in the smallest insect as well as in the greatest elephant.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The greatest art is to conceal art.

We are living in an age of spiritual blackout, where the lights of truth, beauty, and goodness are being extinguished.

We need to cultivate a 'poetic' imagination, one that can enter into the lives of others and understand their experiences.

Humans are not rational creatures; we are emotional creatures who tell ourselves rational stories.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. Such a nation would be crippled, one-armed, disabled diseased.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

I am a poet. From time to time, I weep, but only when I am alone.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Whether you like it or don't like it, bear with it, my beauty.