Creativity Quotes

The culture of making is more about a mindset than a lifestyle. Makers have a curiosity for the built world around them. Understanding where things come from, how they are made, the potential of their function now and beyond, and what it takes to make something not only provides a context to appreciate the object at hand but is essential to imagining infinite possibilities for the future.

~ Rachelle Doorley

...innovation is highly context-dependent. It is a response to a particular problem at a particular time and place. Take away the context, and you remove both the spur to innovation, and its raw material.

~ Matthew Syed

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

~ John Scalzi

Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symbolic defenses mechanism to shield themselves from knowledge of their impermanence. Every person possesses autonomy of the will, the ability to choose how to conduct their life. The freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless; it provides a person with no sense of meaning and supplies no purpose to life because a mere collection of objects will not transcend their physical demise. An artist does not deny their impermanence but embraces the prospect of their death by laboring to create a monument of their existence that will survive their expiry.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.

~ Victor Shamas

It was one dev, naked in a room with a carton of cigarettes, a thermos full of coffee and bourbon, and all his summoned angels.

~ Michael Kirkbride

When people really are writers, they write. Artists draw. Golfers golf. Fish swim. Can’t keep them from it; it’s who they are. They may dream of the big time, but in the meantime, they’ll draw or write on napkins if they have to, and every hallway is a fairway. Or a green.Dave Brisbin

~ David Brisbin

Question everything, including your questions. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Why are you asking? Why are you asking in this particular way? Is it really the right question for the answer you are seeking? Are there additional questions you need to be asking? Don't be afraid to think outside of the box. Don't be afraid of creativity and innovation.

~ Akiroq Brost

This is not a how-to book.It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book.In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never a photograph or diagram in sight. Your mind's eye will create all the images in this text, and each mind is unique. Getting these, and other images, down on paper will provide you with fun, frustration, joy and despair. Like life

~ Judith Mason

I think much of a #writerslife is figuring out how much coffee is needed to fuel madness & creativity while avoiding having to pee.

~ Jennifer Worrell

Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.

~ Michelle C. Hillstrom

Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.

~ Michelle C. Hillstrom

...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want anyone to save me

~ Kate Bolick

Om meditation makes the mind spacious. It gives the freedom for focus and divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is the center of human creativity.

~ Amit Ray

Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.

~ James Thurber

The intelligence that shaped the universe, shaped you. There is an inner part of us, for ever obscured, for ever mysterious, which is most alive during the process of composition. And that inner part, that inner glow, is timeless, and it functions beyond time. It drinks from deep waters. It has the stillness and the dance and the radiance of firmament. When one is most absorbed in the act of creation one almost feels that one is wandering in the great corridors of all minds. Creativity makes us part of it all.

~ Ben Okri

The train will not find you. You must find the train, its pulse, its way of being beyond obvious rock and sway. The train’s pulse is deeper than movement. If you listen, you will hear the song of the train, and when you find the song, you will find the engine, the heart, the blood, the pulse. This is how we create.

~ Cathleen Margaret

The most important thing is to be excellent, interesting, authentic, or useful. To be the thing, not the thing that sells the thing. That's fantastic news for creative people, who specialize in the stuff. Thanks to toomuchness, creativity, once exclusively the province of poets, has suddenly become a business imperative.

~ Andrew Essex

Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.

~ Beth Revis

... creative output depends on creative input.

~ Robert C. Martin

Boredom doesn't exist where creativity lives.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours

~ Michael Lewis

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature its reality is the result of work accomplished by the human spirit, no matter what the material facts that may have stimulated it (a walk, a night of love, a social drama), of a sort of discovery in the world of the spirit, of the emotions, made by the human intelligence, so that the value of a book is never in the material presented by the writer, but in the nature of the operation he performs upon it.

~ Marcel Proust

Whenever new knowledge causes you to question your previous assumptions, the stage is set for creative transformation.

~ Cathy Wild

Set your imagination free and do your best to keep up with it.

~ A.r. Fagundes

Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

~ Angie-Marie Delsante

Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.

~ Nadun Lokuliyanage

The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary OliverI know, you never intended to be in this world.But you’re in it all the same.So why not get started immediately.I mean, belonging to it.There is so much to admire, to weep over.And to write music or poems about.Bless the feet that take you to and fro.Bless the eyes and the listening ears.Bless the tongue, the marvel of taste.Bless touching.You could live a hundred years, it’s happened.Or not.I am speaking from the fortunate platformof many years,none of which, I think, I ever wasted.Do you need a prod?Do you need a little darkness to get you going?Let me be as urgent as a knife, then,and remind you of Keats,so single of purpose and thinking, for a while,he had a lifetime.Mary oliver

~ Mary Oliver

The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.

~ Fennel Hudson

I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness.

~ Fennel Hudson

By the early-afternoon hours, if your brain is normal, it's running strictly on inertia and reflex. All you can do during those hours are the things that are exactly like other things you've done in similar situations. Creativity is out of the question. You might argue that you don't notice any difference in your thinking during the afternoon. That's because you're too dazed to notice anything during those hours. I'm sure it's true for me; I believe you could set my eyebrows on fire during the afternoon and I wouldn't notice until sometime the next morning.

~ Scott Adams

Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

~ Oli Anderson

Instead of thinking outside the box,Get rid of the box.

~ Deepak Chopra

Desire is the impulse that sparks the flame.

~ Cathy Wild

We have a choice to live in the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Darkness.

~ Mommy Moo Moo

Every mistake is a new style.

~ Michael Meade

There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.

~ John Ridley

There is this one thing that makes a big difference: creativity! There is this one thing that gives birth to great things: imaginations! The world we see is a product of creativity and imaginations, and they that know the power of creativity and how to give life to their imaginations live and leave distinctive footprints!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah