Quotes about creativity

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“You are not very creative
if
you have to live within your means!”

“I woke up early this morning with a new state of mind,
A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns.
Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to God,
And keep your face to the rising sun. I feel like one day you'll understand me, dawg
You can still love your man and be manly, dawg”

“Conflict brings out truth, creativity, and resolution.”

“When the devil wants to destroy talented writers, he makes them journalists. Thus he makes sure he has killed their creativity.”

“It is my contention that Creativity is as important today in Education as Literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”

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

“Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color”

“To be creative you actually have to do something.”

“The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.”

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.”

“File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.”

“The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”

“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”

“Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.”

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”

“Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking,”

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

“Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.”

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

“Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”

“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”

“Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off”

“If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.”

“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”

“Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.”

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.”

“Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.”

“If you’re alive, you’re a creative person.”

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”

“My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.”

“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”

“The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.”

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought.”

“Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.”

“Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -”

“Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.”

“Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.”

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.”

“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.”

“The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.”

“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.”

“Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.”

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”

“A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.”

“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”

“I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting."

My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.”

“Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.”

“Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.”

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”

“You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.”

“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”

“An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.”

“God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.”

“Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.”

“Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.”

“We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge”

“The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity…”

“Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.”

“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”

“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”

“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.”

“I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.”

“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.”

“Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”

“We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.”

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.”

“Nothing is more creative… nor destructive… than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”

“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”

“I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly”

“Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”

“Creativity is an act of defiance.”

“Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”

“You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can… how do you moderns say it… think outside the cup.”

“So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”

“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”

“We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.”

“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.”

“Creativity is the residue of time wasted.”

“At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.”

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”

“Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.”

“Creativity is a continual surprise.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”

“creative people always suffer from depression because we're so
super sensitive and special?”

“Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.”

“Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i. e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.”

“when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.”

“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”

“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”

“I believe that true identity is found… in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.”

“We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.”

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