Creativity Quotes

I am no longer scared to close my eyes and to imagine.

~ Vijay Bagha

It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.

~ H. L. Balcomb

The grand scheme of a life, maybe (just maybe), is not about knowing or not knowing, choosing or not choosing. Perhaps what is truly known can’t be described or articulated by creativity or logic, science or art — but perhaps it can be described by the most authentic and meaningful combination of the two: poetry: As Robert Frost wrote, a poem 'begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.'I recommend the following course of action for those who are just beginning their careers or for those like me, who may be reconfiguring midway through: heed the words of Robert Frost. Start with a big, fat lump in your throat, start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, or a crazy lovesickness, and run with it.

~ Debbie Millman

I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

~ Khaled Hosseini

If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you could have created, because it wasn’t from the right source.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.

~ Steven Pressfield

Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: Be normal! Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.

~ Mark Batterson

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

~ Jamie L. Harding

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

~ Amit Kalantri

A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls”.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.

~ E. Paul Torrance

Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department, doing physics or chemistry, does. So why is it that in universities writing about novels is thought to be a higher intellectual calling than writing novels; or rather, if writing novels is not thought to be intellectually valid, why is writing about them?

~ Ken Robinson

An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.

~ Edgar Douglas Adrian

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

~ Angela Phillips

Discovery's friend is creativity

~ Phillip Gary Smith

Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.

~ Jennifer Niven

The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there’s a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if this image is seen by you, you’ll dare not divulge it to others, for others must pay a price

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of art is even allowed to 'tell' us, those who have run away from form, something, because it quite obviously does not embody the intention to confine us. 'La poesie ne s'impose plus, elle s'expose' Something that exposes itself and proves itself in this test gains unpresumed authority. In the space of aesthetic simulation, which is at once the emergency space for the success and failure of the artistic construct, the powerless superiority of the works can affect observers who otherwise take pains to ensure that they have no lord, old or new, above them.

~ Peter Sloterdijk

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested.

~ E.m. Forster

Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.

~ Spencer Wells

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.

~ Timothy Simpson

So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern.

~ Charles Kaiser

I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

~ Tyler Hojberg

Its funny to see how creativity is used to satiate a misplaced libido. How it shifts from an extension of who you are to a bait of what/how much you can get.

~ Nikhil Sharda

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

~ Morgan Freeman

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

~ Cory Doctorow

Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor character in Homer's Odyssey whose unauthorized further adventures Virgil decided to chronicle. Shakespeare didn't invent Hamlet and King Lear; he plucked them from historical and literary sources. Writers weren't the originators of the stories they told; they were just the temporary curators of them. Real creation was something the gods did.All that has changed. Today the way we think of creativity is dominated by Romantic notions of individual genius and originality, and late-capitalist concepts of intellectual property, under which artists are businesspeople whose creations are the commodities they have for sale.

~ Lev Grossman

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

~ Amit Kalantri

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Life's a maze, you twist and you turn through itThe driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it

~ Clipse

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

~ Joshua Rogers

Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests, wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

~ Ashim Shanker

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit. (Guardian interview 2006)

~ Guillermo Del Toro

Trying to think more outside the box is like taking a picture with a camera, the more you do it, the more you learn about different positions and angles. The more you take pictures, the more you learn that you can change the camera distance range or change the speeds, and different amounts of light let in. Likewise, the camera speed is the same as allowing yourself time for outside ideas and thoughts to flow.

~ Wes Adamson

Nothing kills creativity so well as a big dose of negativity.

~ Stella Payton

(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) 'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'(pause)'No. Magic possesses them'.

~ Tommy Tune