G. H. Hardy Creative Quotations

What we've had in the past is probably hypocritical. We've had a lot of creative financing that's made it difficult to assess really who's giving what, when and how.

The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.