Creativity Quotes

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty...

If you cannot create, then buy a company that can. In particular, the large corporations buy small, ...

And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature...

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

...“Maybe it’s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all s...

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mi...

Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers,...

My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist ...

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an ...

The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all foll...

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative pote...

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to enc...

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in stud...

...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses ...

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now ther...

Money chases good ideas

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that ...

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, the...

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less ta...

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache...

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a drea...

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the...

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you in...

It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in th...

Indeed, very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the first p...

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative im...

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light in...

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage...

Basic Principles:1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.2....

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong se...

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, ...

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artisti...

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your d...

Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a fo...

Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, ...

I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lo...

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doi...

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Ale...

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that...

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in w...

The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’...

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execut...

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you a...

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to thi...

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own va...

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it...

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a wh...

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It ...

The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy g...

...the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog thro...

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

Creativity is as important as literacy

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and ou...

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for th...

Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doin...

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, whic...

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in ...

Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: y...

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. ...

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat ...

I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of wri...

A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague....

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, co...

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future...

Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Chris...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the exte...

This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than...

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...