Creativity Quotes

Our suppressing who we are to fit in is exhausting. It kills flow and creativity. It also prevents genuine connection with others.

~ Henna Inam

A Poet never denies creativity entrance.

~ Micheline Jean Louis

Every thought is a creative energy that moves the universe to action.

~ Réné Gaudette

Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you'll learn more.

~ Steeven Shaw

Creativity is easy.Originality is difficult.Relevance is a bitch.

~ Mark Rude

Creativity is a basic biological drive to engage in meaningful conversations with ourselves & the world around us.

~ Sara Saltee

That tingle in the brain is called a word.It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.

~ Kate Kearns

Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! Very few have it in them.

~ Andres Heinz

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

~ Edith Hamilton

In 1829 Rossini was at an age which has often proven critical in the lives of musicians, painters and writers. Lapses into silence far more complete than Rossini's, creative failures, suicides, and unanticipated deaths have been common in the middle to late 30s. As Charles Rosen has noted, 'It is the age when the most fluent composer begins to lose the ease of inspiration he once possessed, when even Mozart had to make sketches and to revise'.

~ Richard Osborne

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

~ Vicki Alayne Bradley

Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware. ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom, in freedom alone can there be creativeness.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.

~ Maurice Blanchot

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

~ Hafiz

How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from hiscreation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.

~ Indu Muralidharan

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives…. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You’ve heard poets talk about, poems flowing out of their bodies; painters, they get on a roll. You all have seen the musician, when they are in that state, the guitar, the piano, whatever instrument just becomes part of their body, their ego is completely gone and it is just their connection to the art, their connection to the emotions they are trying to share with the audience- that is pure flow.

~ Chase Jarvis

People who aren’t in that space will be like ‘So how was your trip?’ and you don’t even go into it. ‘I guess it was pretty good.’ And then you talk to other people who have been there and they know exactly why your eyes are glazed over.

~ Jimmy Chin

Seeing God is all about getting in touch with reality. If you want to photograph God, focus your lens on Hamakom, The Place, anyplace where you see divine light illuminating reality. Let your camera collect the light reflecting from the reality shaping your everyday life and you will find yourself photographing God in action. (From the Introduction to the book Photograph God)

~ Mel Alexenberg

I found myself tumbling down a 2000-foot face and my senses were so reduced. I couldn’t hear anything. It was totally peaceful. I was totally calm.

~ Travis Rice

Live, Breathe, Connect, Create!

~ Michele Jennae

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

~ Beth Turner

Sexual role-play is the enactment of a highly imaginative and erotic psychodrama where the individual is given creative license to express the polar opposite qualities of their multifaceted personality, bringing a profound sense of psychological release and rejuvenation to those involved.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid.

~ Steven Kotler

Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014

~ Jenna Cornell

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

~ Tawny Lara

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

~ Jennifer Sodini

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

~ Bertrand Russell

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

~ Sanober Khan

Selfish DreamscapesIf you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them... gossiping about everybody else's dream but their own.

~ T.f. Hodge

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for.

~ Vernor Vinge

Asbjørn had a nose, that was his great talent, I had never met anyone with such sureness of taste as him, but what use was it, part from being the hub student life revolved around? The essence of a nose is judgment, to judge you have to stand outside, and that is not where creativity takes place.

~ Karl Ove Knausgård

Appreciate the creation, respect the creator of it, and admire the source of all creativity.

~ T.f. Hodge

No matter how high you climb, there will always be a room for you to turn your creativity and productivity up some notches.

~ Hafiz

We are all creative, from the mother adding an extra pinch of garlic to her meal, to the entrepreneur launching a brand new product, to the business consultant who creates a more effective way for corporate departments to communicate. The call requires creativity.

~ Shannon Tanner

Berg paid his way with stories.

~ Nicholas Dawidoff