Almighty Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“The power of creativity does not just lie in an artist’s work, but also in how he or she continues to create regardless of…

— Sharon Louden

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and…

— Carl Jung

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“The nature of a work of art is to be not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world but a world…

— A.C. Bradley

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits…

— Walter Pater

“Creativeness is not merely a matter of painting pictures or writing poems, which is good to do, but which is very little in itself.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one…

— Pablo Picasso

“It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it…

— Thomas Mann

“I see the creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing..and you will find all manner of dishonor.…

— Khaled Hosseini

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

— Henri Matisse

“The light of artistic creation is also blinding. The artist can’t see the suffering he causes to those around him. And the’ll never understand…

— Ian McEwan

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate…

— Lynne Truss