Human Creativity Quotes

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

Whoever imagines that, because so many inventions and so many improvements in machinery have been made, there remains little else to be discovered, has but a feeble conception of the infinitude and vastness of mechanical powers, or of the unlimited reach of science. Much has been discovered, infinitely more remains unrevealed. The ingenuity of man is exploring a reign without limits, and delving in a mine whose treasures are exhaustless.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.