4 Paul Valery Quotes on Creativity

Paul Valery quotes on creativity

12. The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered experession of his nature and our destinies.

14. A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

22. A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

25. A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it-that is to say, gives it to the public.