Art & Creativity Sayings

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

Do not imagine that when you have conquered these lands you will keep them. You will have to leave them to others, as others left them to you.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us.

Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When I sleep, I am a stone in the ground.

I am not a writer. I am a man who writes.

I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am not a woman but a man, for I can think, I can write, I can be a thousand things.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Write drunk, edit sober.

I never felt that I had been a part of anything, or that I had belonged anywhere.

I have always said that the best way to write is to do it with your eyes closed.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I'm writing for black people, in the same way that Tolstoy was writing for Russians, not for a little white island in the Caribbean.

I’m not a writer who writes. I’m a writer who reads.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

I could not be a Poet – as I was not a Bird – And so I chose to be a Fly – And buzz around the World –

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.