Janos Bolyai Quotes

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

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.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

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

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

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.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I like to create.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.