Creativity Quotes

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence...

If we allow our "high creativity" to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in ...

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace not...

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working wit...

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who...

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativi...

The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or ...

In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is ope...

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin ev...

We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea ...

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. T...

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature it...

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe...

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mo...

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover wi...

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the co...

The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of cour...

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

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

Dancing is very like poetry.

I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the b...

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and...

We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how ea...

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our cre...

The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary OliverI know, you never intended to be in this world....

Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that ...

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They...

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our c...

Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity...

where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poe...

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from the...

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

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

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

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pu...

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives...

All of the dissatisfactions he had felt in his practice of the art form he had stumbled across withi...

There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was ...

There are people who can never go to Fantastica," said Mr. Coreander, "and others who can, but who s...

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not bei...

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

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

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my lif...

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside ...

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us trem...

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate ...

The creative act is not pure.

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, ...

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the wors...

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and wr...

And when things get tough, this is what you should do.Make good art.

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there'...

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a float...

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults...

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value l...

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxt...

Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's a...

All of our days are numbered; we cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to no...

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a reco...

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important produ...

Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries ...

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding...

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an a...

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

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They de...

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of...

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and...

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

I do not seek. I find.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed ...

Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the c...

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make...

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is ...

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can unders...

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhuman...

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. Ther...

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but...

The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving expe...

Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artis...

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his ...

Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its root...

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.