Edouard Manet Quotes

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

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.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

Music inspires me.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.