Creativity Quotes

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

~ Dan Sanders

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

~ Curtis Bill Pepper

Our actions are highly magnetic to our thoughts.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

~ William Zinsser

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me that the moon behind a certain cloud formation looked very like a painkiller dissolving in a glass of water. I didn’t work toward that simile, it was simply there: I was mugged, as it were, by the similarity between these two very different things. Literary composition can be a similar process. The writer’s real world and the writer’s fictional world are compared, and these comparisons turned into text. But other times literary composition can be a plain old slog, and nothing to do with zones or inspiration. It’s world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.

~ David Mitchell

To be creative is to look Madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest.

~ River Fairchild

Daemons had minds of their own, which could never be harnessed, even by those who sheltered them.

~ Curtis Bill Pepper

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

~ Gabriel Fielding

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Play is just another version of work

~ Ray Kurzweil

Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity.

~ Ray Bradbury

What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face could be born.

~ Roman Payne

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

~ Aberjhani

You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.

~ Shawn Lukas

I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.

~ Anne Lamott

Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.

~ Kim John Payne

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

~ William Howard Taft

Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can't always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create this new thing- this painting, this story, this song. If you break art down to its base elements, there's nothing miraculous about the letters of the alphabet or a drop of paint. But an artist can put those elements together to create something powerful, something that moves us and withstands the test of time. A work that no one but that artist could have imagined, let alone created.

~ Sarah Cross

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

~ Ron Brackin

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower.

~ Madeleine L'engle

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous.

~ Lloyd Alexander

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.

~ Shawn Lukas

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible.

~ Anne Lamott

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

~ Gloria Ng

It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.

~ Jan Kaplicky

Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.

~ Peter Medawar

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Practicing art is a meditation, an artwork is an insight.

~ William Ash

Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?

~ Shelley K. Wall

An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.

~ Doug Cooper

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in Eng

~ Glen Cook

Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When i produce from this place of truth, the results transform both creator and beholder.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.

~ Shaun Hick

Gratitude is a way of creativity.

~ Apollo Matrix

From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes. But in reality, this solitary sanctuary i inhabit, allows my artistic nature to sing at the top of its lungs. My feelings have the space they need to breathe. And my art can gain the momentum, it requires, to bubble up to the surface of consciousness. For me, creativity is a chaotic and quiet hybrid, an entity that seeks a safe place to call home.

~ Jaeda Dewalt