Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind and tend the means that are mine.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.