Pietro Aretino Quotes

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.