Creativity Quotes Quotes

You are an original masterpiece, imitating someone else diminishes your value.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big publish button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

~ Jonathan Harnisch

Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world.

~ Renae A. Sauter

A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Creativity takes courage. Not just once, but consistently. Without courage we cannot be creative. Without feeling fear at some point we will not reach our creative potential. From first putting paint on paper through to selling our work on a worldwide stage there is plenty to be scared of. But this is where creativity lives – on the edge of our comfort zones.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

Many of us learned to repress our creativity. We were told it was secondary to more important skills. The good news is that many of us have untapped gifts just waiting to be expressed. You owe it to yourself to uncover and express your gifts

~ Renae A. Sauter

Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If all you are looking for is a miracle you are wide open to follow the antichrist and the false prophets because they are going to have a big league of signs and wonders ministry.If signs and wonders do not bring glory and honour to Jesus Christ, then you must be watching a false prophet whose anointing does not come from the Holy Spirit of God.

~ Patience Johnson

Our life is not in stuff, focus your attention on Christ where it should be. Prosperity and wealth has damaged the body of Christ. God takes pleasure in the prosperity of his children but don't replace him with material.

~ Patience Johnson

Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.

~ Ernest Barbaric

At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!

~ Avijeet Das

It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich - beyond material and transient things.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The world says fit in, the universe says stand out.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I and my silences keep talking to each other.

~ Avijeet Das

In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The deeper magic always comes, in the intense sorcery of your inner silence.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Diamonds are valuable because they are uncommon, sand is worthless because it is common, be yourself and you will be a diamond.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The doorway to health, higher intelligence and inexhaustible creativity lies in your willingness to live from Source. Risk being who you are meant to be; you are more compassionate, colorful, imaginative, visionary, more sensitive than you think.

~ Lynne Gordon-Mundel

In our most vulnerable hour, it is helpful to remember our creative power.

~ Atalina Wright

To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else, just be yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't run with the crowd, fly with the stars.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Note to myself - It is time for me to start taking my guitar lessons. One of my neighbor's singing and guitar strumming skills are so cool that I can't stop marveling at the music wafting around here.

~ Avijeet Das

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We are all creative beings. The act of creating puts us in direct connection with the greatest creator. The master artist that is our Divine Creator.

~ Eileen Anglin

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.

~ Ashley Ormon

Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitude.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Any person whom seeks to live a historical existence must devote their efforts to learning about the world, care about people and nature, and seek to express their thoughts in the artistic methodology most appropriate to their particular talent. A person cannot fake self-awareness or imitate an artistic nature. A person must honestly earn a heightened level of conscious awareness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

But Hannah's friend didn’t understand the volatile balancing act between art and sanity, that the act of creation was like walking a tightrope during an earthquake. She didn’t understand Hannah’s stupid need for validation, or that the size of the audience increased the stakes and multiplied the fear. She didn’t understand that creativity was dangerous, that, yes, there were some people who could stand before a canvas, paint a sunset that would bring the world to its knees, and return to their loved ones as a complete person who didn’t hurt, didn’t cry, didn’t spill blood to appease the host of fickle muses. But Hannah did. Hannah’s best ideas—sometimes her only ideas—were buried beneath the skin.

~ Jake Vander-Ark

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you.

~ Adam Oakley

One author said I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana