Friedrich von Schiller Quotes on Creativity
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O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.
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Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.