The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself-life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.