Creativity Quotes

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.

The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more mel...

Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which do...

It is a burden...(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and thi...

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt

When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thi...

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Because I came to seeThat I should never have been a first-rate potter.I didn't have it in me. It's ...

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

What I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being ...

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I wa...

There is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imaginat...

If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imagi...

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Does anyone ask a painter -- even the painter himself -- why he paints? Now me, I painted... used to...

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial inte...

A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revere...

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...

I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you sa...

To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Taste...

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is ...

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned t...

We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is...

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so w...

Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a...

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . ....

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown u...

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without gettin...

Ingenuity requires creativity.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to s...

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, ...

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order

I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Ni...

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought...

Always the following wind of historyOf others' wisdom makes a buoyant airTill we come suddenly on po...

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing somet...

Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every...

He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with...

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating po...

Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who ...

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (...

Art is long, life is short.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare My business i...

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. ...

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too b...

All of us [writers] failed to match our dream of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splend...

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

Work usually follows will.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...

The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol ...

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...

Given the freedom to create, everybody is creative. All of us have an innate, instinctive desire to ...

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way in...

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is ...

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more a...

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficu...

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that neede...

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, ...

The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mot...

Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was ...

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit.“Hallo, Rabbit,” said Pooh dreamily.“Did you make that song up?”“Well, I s...

You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which mu...

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, s...

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender a...

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories ...

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings mak...

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it ...

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light...

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certai...

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of other...

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications gener...

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...