Creativity Quotes

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening to the compositions of others in an effort to contribute to the whole. We don't chose whether to engage, only how to; we either harmonize or create dissonance. Our words, our deeds, our very presence create and leave impressions in the minds of others just as a writer makes impressions with their words. Who you are is an unfolding narrative. You came from nothing and will return there eventually. Instead of taking ourselves so seriously all the time, we can discover the playful irony of a story that has never been told in quite this way before. -- Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs

Stephen Batchelor

In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.

John Cassavetes

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

You were placed on this earth to create not to compete.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. )ust put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart truly desires must come to you.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting important and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

Wilfred Peterson

If you are seeking creative ideas go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

Marilyn Machlowitz

You lose it if you talk about it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

The End of every maker is himself.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Now I really make the little idea from clay and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it look at it from underneath see it from one view hold it against the sky imagine it any size I like and really be in control almost like God creating something.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Dean William R. Inge

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

Voltaire

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

What another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as you do not say it. What another would have written as well do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

God is in the world or nowhere creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine of God and that participation is his immortality ....

Alfred North Whitehead

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

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

Stephen Sondheim

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

August Strindberg

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Andrei Voznesensky

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

I do not seek. I find.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

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

William Faulkner

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Doodling is the brooding of the hand.

I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble and I will steal from everywhere to do it.

George Balanchine

Don’t just do the obvious and predictable stuff, be remarkable!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Ugh, writer's block. The best thing to do is to forget about everything you're trying to do. Get away from your writing station, kick your feet up and relax. Then allow your mind to just wander. Don't stop it. Just let yourself think of anything, no mater how silly the thoughts seem. Remember, not to judge these thoughts. This will open up your creative receptors. You'll begin to think outside the box. Then the good stuff will start racing through you. That's when you start writing!

Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Creativity is leading the life king-size, despite you being a pauper!

Ramana Pemmaraju

We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us a sense that we're alive and breathing and doing Something! Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.

Rob Bell

There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.

Rob Bell

Dancing is very like poetry.

Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how the mind works. Then there is an art of self knowledge, which each person has to develop for himself. This art must lead one to be sensitive to how his basically false approach to life is always tending to generate conflict and confusion. The role of art here is therefore not to provide a symbolism, but rather to teach the artistic spirit of sensitive perception of the individual and particular phenomena of one's own psyche. This spirit is needed if one is to understand the relevance of general scientific knowledge to his own special problems, as well as to give effect to the scientific spirit of seeing the fact about one's self as it is, whether on elikes it or not, and thus helping to end conflict.Such an approach is not possible, however, unless one has the spirit that meets life wholly and totally. We still need the religious spirit, but today we no longer need the religious mythology, which is now introducing an irrelevant and confusing element into the whole question.Itwould seem, then, that in some ways the modern person must manage to create a total approach to life which accomplishes what was done in earlier days by science, art and religion, but in a new way that is appropriate to the modern conditions of life. An important part of such an action is to see what the relationshipbetween science and art now actually is, and to understand the direction in which this relationship might develop.

The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.

Pearl Zhu

At times you have to fight really hard to remember it. Fight within your mind’s dungeons and bring it out alive before it could have been killed and buried forever by the demons living deep down inside your mind’s dungeons.

Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me.

You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Like a splendid mosaic of myriad colors, she in all her hues of sensitivity would paint her feelings in your mind’s gray skies. She was the butterfly making you run after her. She was the Zahir, a mirage that transcended borders and time-zones.

If you follow the herd, people may mistake you for a cow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

Euphoria Godsent

Your ingenuity will remain dormant until it is provoked

Bernard Kelvin Clive

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

Patience Johnson

Follow your dreams, not the crowd.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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