philosophical creativity Quotes

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.