Art & Creativity Sayings

I got my start by giving myself a start.

As long as you're green you're growing, as soon as you're ripe you start to rot.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

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

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.

China needs more soldiers and fewer poets.

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.

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

We are beginning to see that the problem is not to free men, but to design the kind of culture in which they will be naturally good.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The eye cannot endure the sight of the absolute, so it creates a perspective.

Individual consciousness is only a part of the collective consciousness.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The future is not something to be predicted, but something to be created.

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