Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

I love 'Girls.' The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can't believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It's really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

I'm an artist at heart.

All great authors are seers.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

I am just an artist.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

Poets are born, not paid.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

And if you think this young boy, from Dallas, Texas, is adding to the canon of theater arts, of performing arts, of cinema, well I'm humbled and I'm very excited.

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.

All great artists have some spiritual backing.

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.