We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.
Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.
For man is by nature an artist.
I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
You don't have the potential to create, you are always creating.
I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.
Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creative in some way, because I think it's just a part of our genetic makeup.
Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.
