Creativity Quotes - Page 30

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

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

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

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

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

George Bernard Shaw

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Criss Jami

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

Madeleine L'Engle

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

Steve Martin

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Criss Jami

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Charles Baudelaire

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Creativity is as important as literacy

Ken Robinson

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

Laurie Halse Anderson

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Austin Kleon

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Ernest Hemingway

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be pat

Hilary Mantel

Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

John Steinbeck

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Andy Warhol

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so thatwithout the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Pearl S. Buck

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

Anaïs Nin

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Albert Einstein

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

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

Ken Robinson

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take the

Jim Jarmusch

Doors are for people with no imagination.

Derek Landy

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Oscar Wilde

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

Steven Pressfield

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

Charlotte Eriksson

Write like you have many readers.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Shake off the tonnage of old genetics, nitpicking naysayers and hand-me-down Egos hoarding junk in the back of your mind.Be a Friday night liberty set loose on Monday morning.

Laurie Perez

There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

There is one rule, though: once you discover your truth, you have to go all in. Fully. Every single chip.

Kamal Ravikant

When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.

Kamal Ravikant

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

Rebecca Solnit

It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn't his fault, her fault, their fault or the circumstances. It was your inability to choose. So, life chose for you. Somewhere in that crazy mind of yours time stopped. You thought someone would rescue you, but they didn't. You have to rescue yourself. This is not a fire you can put out; you have to walk through it, in order to reach life. Getting burned is apart of growth, didn't you know?

Shannon L. Alder

To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.

Donna Goddard

As I create I become.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz

I wish you self-esteem so high – you're humble.

Lalah Delia

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

Ernest Hemingway

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Slash Coleman

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Slash Coleman

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Slash Coleman

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

Madeleine L'Engle

Being an innovator is something that most people just won't get. It's still yummy doing this thang over here though. The older I get I've come to place where I just love to create so much that I do me regardless of what it looks like to anyone else. Just think: The people in the world who just know they'll make it (In their way) regardless- Always make it to their chosen destinations. It's wonderful to see. So DO you always, And do so unapologetically with happiness! Peace and love.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

Charlotte Eriksson

Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all.

Jacob Nordby

Do you want to be in your own story or on the outside writing about it? Everyone battles fear and uncertainty every day. However, the only failure in life is believing that your value relies on other people's approval or resources. The reality is this: When you are living your authentic self and not how people want you to act, then you are free to use the full spectrum of your creativity and gifts. People don't need resources to get out of any life situation. They need creativity to create resources. When you realize that, becoming stuck is impossible.

Shannon L. Alder

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

Criss Jami

Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive.

Zander Sherman

To wonder is to recreate a sacred self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To live is to wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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