Creativity Quotes

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

Human beings are not separate from nature. We are nature. The beauty of the sunset is your own beauty. The power of the ocean is your power. We are inseparable from the beauty of the mountains, rivers, and forests that surround us. The more that you can allow your natural self to come out – to honour your natural beauty, your natural creativity, your natural thirst for leadership and compassion – the happier and healthier you’ll be.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Creativity and spirituality function on the same side of the brain. If that is true, it is quite reasonable and natural for them to function together. The prophets and mystics we're obviously aware of this connection. p. 23.

~ David Brazzeal

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

~ Rossana Condoleo

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

~ Fennel Hudson

That thing you’re afraid of? That label you shy away from? That word that seems too bold? That audacious goal? The life you think you don’t deserve? Aren’t talented enough to have? Aren’t brave enough to claim? Fuck. That. Shit. None of that baggage you’ve been carrying around has a place this year. Kick to the the curb. Now. This year only has space for the bold and the audacious and the brave. Don’t try to convince me you are not those things. I know better and your excuses hold no weight here. You are brave and bold and audacious and one hell of a goddess. Always have been. Always will be. So fill every step you take with intention. Then remember that intention is worthless without action—so get a move on, sugar

~ Jeanette Leblanc

Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.

~ Fennel Hudson

Deal resistance a death blow and make sweet love to your art all night long. Put on your fishnet thigh highs and your patent leather stilettos and your special occasion lingerie. Seduce the hell out of your own creative soul. It’s time for an epic lap dance. Dance for your paint and canvas, for fingers tripping across keyboard, for the open arms of motherhood, for the layers of flavor in the meals you create. Wind your hips down for the click of the shutter, for the 3 a.m. bathroom poem, for the late night lesson planning

~ Jeanette Leblanc

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

~ Twyla Tharp

Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is permanent.

~ Jeanette Leblanc

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in between. Because Life is all of these things and more. It is the artist's divine purpose to reflect what Experience has shown them and others. What truly sets us apart from each other is whether or not we truly know ourselves enough to reflect objectively; but, through our own unique 'voice'.

~ Solange Nicole

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.--(psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the state of being he calls flow)

~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which – given that I’m emerging from dark times – can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I always resurface wiser and with a way of viewing things that is different to before.

~ Fennel Hudson

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works.

~ Marty Rubin

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough to give it a meaning, a subjective meaning, a meaning exclusively important for the navigator himself.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

The phrases “I am not…” has a great creative power. When you tell yourself “I am not…”, remember you have just created something. Be careful of whom you say you are not; you will never be such a person! You are not a loser!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

~ Fennel Hudson

True laziness is the commitment to decrease work and increase efficiency, reduce burden and boost creativity, expand your knowledge and avoid complications, minimize effort and still get it done.

~ Alan Rios

Leave Your Comfort Zone, If You Want To Accomplish Something.

~ Palash Chowdhury

At first the creative mind submits to its entry into the symbolic register and gets itself structured like everyone else. Then he balks at a fateful moment which becomes a turning point in the history of his mental growth. From the entry into the imaginary order where he acknowledges his ego and then to the symbolic order where he recognizes his place in the society and finally in his de-symbolization or a refusal to obey the Law that is the rules of the world of symbols, a creative genius is born.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Ingenuity and creativity, even for a defeating case of two steps forward and one backward, applied strategically can covert a loss into gain.

~ Priyavrat Thareja

Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened... Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be... We are apparently on the trail here of some sort of invisible or hidden hand that beneficially hides difficulties from us.

~ Albert O. Hirschman

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

~ Fennel Hudson

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.

~ Fennel Hudson

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

~ Jack Ryan

A little care and a dash of creativity can transform the simplest items into great expressions of love.

~ Narissa Doumani

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

~ Fennel Hudson

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

~ Shaun Hick

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

~ Niels Bohr

To lose focus means to lose energy. The absolutely wrong thing to attempt when we've lost focus is to rush about struggling to pack it all back together again. Rushing is not the thing to do... Patience, peace and rocking renew ideas. Just holding the idea and the patience to rock it are what some women might call a luxury. Wild Woman says it is a necessity... Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Creativity isn't a switch that's flicked on or off; it's a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you.

~ Rod Judkins

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

~ Austin Kleon

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

~ Edith Hamilton

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.

~ Matthew Fox

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

~ Vicki Alayne Bradley

I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and career: for the sake of citizenship, for the sake of living well with others, above all, for the sake of building a self that is strong and creative and free.

~ William Deresiewicz

I realized there really is a natural interplay between my spirituality and my creativity. When I enter into a spirit of prayer, I can cultivate a receptive space and actually ask God for creative ideas that will enhance my my praying. Then these creative practices allow me to enter into the spiritual space even more quickly and deeply. The result is a spiraling effect leading to ever-expanding dimensions, encompassing both deeper spirituality and heightened creativity.

~ David Brazzeal

It was as if God had become not only the object of my praise and thanksgiving but my creative partner as well.

~ David Brazzeal