Creative Nature Quotes

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.