Creativity Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which builds is better than that which is built.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson