Art & Creativity Sayings

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.

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.

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.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

I have not invented a 'death ray'. I don't need a 'death ray' to destroy an army. I can simply create a vibratory force that would shatter the earth.

I am no poet, but if you think for a moment of the energy that is in a single drop of water, you will see a poetry in it.

The deaf are not a race apart. They are a part of humanity.

The chemical elements are not created, but are transformed.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we *can* imagine.

The scientist needs a vivid imagination to create hypotheses and theories. The best scientists are also artists.

We are all agreed that the only way of getting a correct impression of the world is to be a part of it.

We are part of the world, and the world is part of us.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

The beauty of a crystal lies in its perfect order.