Creativity Quotes

Are these magic cloaks?” asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder. “I do not know what you mean by that,” answered the leader of the Elves. “They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that love into all that we make.

~ Hafiz

Your only limitation is the limits of your imagination so dream big.

~ Artika Tyner

Play and productivity are no longer two separate worlds that rarely meet. They can come together like happy fistfuls of Play-Doh, beautifully blending to reveal the brand-new colors of a meaningful life. You get to play AND do. Play matters. Your life matters. It's time to manifest.

~ Marney K. Makridakis

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

~ Lorii Myers

It is appropriate to speak of the artisans as possessed of wisdom (and not just skill), because the biblical writers share the understanding common to most traditional societies that the active form of wisdom is good work. Wisdom does not consist only in sound intellectual work; any activity that stands in a consistently productive relationship to the material world and nurtures the creative imagination qualifies as wise.

~ Ellen F. Davis

Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.

~ Morrie Schwartz

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese

~ Paul Arden

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

~ Criss Jami

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I am pushing you, even if it’s off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they’re not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative.

~ Nikki Sixx

Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work anyway. Because you’re just wired that way. It’s so engrained, it’s such a part of your personality that you don’t just stop doing it.

~ David Sedaris

YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of plastic sheets, suffocating the earth one square inch at a time.

~ Nicole Bonomi

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions but independent of them. On days filled with the depths of despair, they can create. On days filled with the heights of joy, they can create.

~ Robert Fritz

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

~ N.m. Silber

Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy and share the fruits of creative labor.

~ Lawren Leo

Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states cannot be honest, but individuals can. Real books cannot be written by machines or committees. The truth is not always easy to discern, but a lie can and must be called by its right name. And the imagination, like certain wild animals, as Orwell himself once put it, will not breed in captivity. Actually, that last metaphor is beautiful but inaccurate. Even in the most dire conditions, there is a human will to resist coercion. We must believe that even now in North Korea, there are ideas alive inside human brains that were not put there by any authority.

~ Christopher Hitchens

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

~ Orville Wright

Always remember: a brand is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world, a corner of someone's mind.

~ John Hegarty

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too.

~ Criss Jami

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits. (To be a crackpot is not, however, enough in itself.)

~ Isaac Asimov

I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.

~ N.m. Silber

Transcendence is before you should you choose to take a swim.Into your deep blue you dive and all that is within.Referred to as my subconscious so you may understand me clear.But there’s nothing very simple about the message I’m sending here.The colour of your blood, the liquid through your veins, is really just a pathway to the place that feels your pains.The heart is an ocean but within it there’s a sun, submerged beneath the ocean, and all that is but one.

~ Nicole Bonomi

In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.

~ John Mark Reynolds

The Hands create, what the Heart feels!

~ Courtland Kusmierz

Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

~ Russell L. Ackoff

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

~ Tim Fargo

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from peer pressure.

~ Susan Cain

Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

~ William Shakespeare

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

~ Leo Tolstoy

With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows.

~ Michele Jennae

I believe when we’re able to fully own and express ourselves, we are able to tap into a creative power deeply rooted from our sexual energy – which is our creative energy. We’re so sexually loose, and also sexually strained. We don’t understand the creative power we have because we’re so busy using it in all the wrong ways – or worse, not using it at all.

~ Lauryn Doll

Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.

~ Mark Hewer

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even ahead of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

~ Lester Bangs

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come realise the potential of their calling.Like the shamans, we may serve as healers, metaphysicians, inciters, exciters,spiritual guides and sources of inspiration. If the musician is illuminated from within,he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps. Then he is serving planet and its people,healing what ails us. Such music is truly important. It is said that “only one who obeys can truly command.” When the artist is immersed in a services,giving himself up over and over again, another paradox occurs:He is being seen by all others as a master.

~ Kenny Werner