Creativity Quotes

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...

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own person...

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

You lose it if you talk about it.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did w...

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seve...

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...

I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to ...

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She w...

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to...

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must...

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit...

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capab...

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of the...

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological...

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be ...

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an ex...

In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the ...

Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. ...

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts...

The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and...

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and...

The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary l...

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

I can always be distracted by love but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessar...

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways...

I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given a...

You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creat...

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less ...

Books aren’t made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids, There’s some long-pondere...

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse ...

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creati...

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Sometimes I don’t understand why my arms don’t drop from my body with fatigue, why my brain doesn’t ...

I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empt...

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its cl...

Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one ca...

It’s frustration which makes creativity possible.

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for ...