Art & Creativity Sayings

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

The most marvelous thing about writing is that it allows you to be alone with your thoughts, without being lonely.

The work of art is a scream.

The point is that we should be trying to create a world in which we don't have to choose between bad and worse.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Music is no different from opium. Music affects the human mind in a way that makes people think of nothing but music and sensual matters.

Imagine that you have died and your life has come to an end. Now think about the life you wish you had lived. Live that life now.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

What does not transmit light creates darkness.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

China needs more soldiers and fewer poets.

I am not a creature of circumstances; I am a creature of principle.

I am part of all that I have met.

We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so.

I have seen in America the most perfect equality of conditions that can be imagined; and I have also seen the most profound inequalities.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

I think I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.