Creativity Quotes

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. Ther...

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but...

The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving expe...

Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artis...

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his ...

Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its root...

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without t...

If only mankind could hold its own fertility in awe, which is one and the same whether it manifests ...

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Imitation is suicide.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the sense...

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Futur...

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d ...

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about bo...

Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Play is just another version of work

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or ri...

I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sol...

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and sprea...

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our he...

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.A...

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But t...

Three miles from my adopted city lies a village where I came to peace.The world there was a calm pla...

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might d...

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. Th...

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels ...

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. Th...

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels ...

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. Th...

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels ...

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. Th...

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels ...

...Religious observances, once so full of suffering and awe, have become accommodating and benign. T...

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a mu...

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that se...

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it fa...

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vie...

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the abse...

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was ...

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

Curiosity is the main energy...

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for i...

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be marrie...

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One ...

Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creatin...

The concept of encounter also enables us to make clearer the important distinction between talent an...

These poets and other creative persons are the ones who express being itself, he held. As I would pu...

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly ...

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is s...

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me ...

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the flu...

On Pilgrim's Progress: “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such...

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

By the early-afternoon hours, if your brain is normal, it's running strictly on inertia and reflex. ...

Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the aud...

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possi...

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ...

I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. (...) Boredom opens up the space, for new e...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life a...

There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life a...

When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- b...

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art ...

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until i...

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great po...

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-in...

Musical comedies aren't written they are re-written.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric...

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. T...

I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientis...

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not ...

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naï...

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.