The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species.
Source: Human, All Too Human, aph. 210, 1878.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct 15 1844-1900), German philosopher, poet; He was a noted critic of Christianity, conformism and nationalism who wrote The Birth of Tragedy, 1872.