Quotes by Proust, Marcel

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the pr >>

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those >>

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of >>

Quotations about Creativity

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewe >>

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process whe >>

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor >>

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

Proust, Marcel