Creativity Quotes

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. Sh...

While she'd been drying her hair, she'd come up with a new message for her answering machine - "I'm ...

What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?”The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, ...

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special...

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising,...

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical mean...

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird-- that's easy. What's hard is t...

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we we...

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw th...

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look...

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.

I can certainly throw out some observation about the process of creating which may be of use. Firstl...

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling in...

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ...

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what ev...

Symbols,” Langdon said, “in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose tou...

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to...

It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like push...

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d...

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, c...

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the...

Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brai...

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better...

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me...

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the p...

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving ...

Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within,...

Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities b...

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work...

The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. A...

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the char...

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of re...

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was...

What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Instead of thinking outside the box,Get rid of the box.

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance...

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make o...

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subco...

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and th...

I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the q...

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious...

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your makin...

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or ...

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declen...

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativit...

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, t...

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a p...

Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experimen...

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas.

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn...

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be...

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

Stop treating your creativity like it’s a tired, old, unhappy marriage (a grind, a drag) and start r...

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

I simply vowed to the universe that I would write forever, regardless of the result. I promised that...

Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertai...

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

Do what you love to do, and do it with both seriousness and lightness. At least then you will know t...

I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it i...

Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the...

We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

There’s plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home, but understand this:...

Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hi...

It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don’t have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is u...

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhe...

Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one. To even call somebody...

And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it. I choose ...

[C]reative living is a path for the brave.

It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creat...

Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and m...

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interes...

[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart...

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day...

Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very be...

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness and the playground is ...

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry ...

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le...