Creative Superiority Quotes

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

And I could write it better than you ever felt it.

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

As we to the brutes, poets are to us.