Creativity Quotes

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.

~ Molly Peacock

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.

~ Luther E. Vann

Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn't a trick, was to take up at once the thing you saw and the reason you saw it as well; to always bite off more than you could chew, and then chew it. If it were self-indulgence for him to cut and polish his semiprecious memories, and yet seem like danger, like a struggle he was unfit for, then self-indulgence was a potent force, he must examine it, he must reckon with it.

~ John Crowley

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

~ Kelly Bryson

The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written. Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep. He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere.

~ Vincent H. O'neil

I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings. However, an intellectual persons interpretation and perspective can modify its context so he or she can sound creative and compelling when he or she educates his or her audience by forming a connection with a particular vocabulary word scholars/ innovative thinkers would use specifically in a particular field of study.

~ Saaif Alam

In every possibility of a mind May you travel, yet not blind. As a head filled with imagination, Goes a heart full of gold creation, It's never late to have a dream. Nor is it so far away as it seems, And, like a rearview mirror reveals, Thus a fantasy soon becomes real. It may be closer than it appears. Or at least it will show up clear. Never give up a dream for fear!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Wait. Take your foot off the pedal. Instead, let your creativity drive you.

~ Scott Stabile

A little creativity can make something ordinary, extraordinary, and something extraordinary that much more so.

~ Scott Stabile

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.

~ Frank Zappa

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

~ Michael Braun

There is not a better time to start being the unique contribution that you are.

~ Monika Zands

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every single human being is creative. Dreams are a proof.

~ Nikita Arora

You are here to be fully alive. Your expression is needed. Don't hold back

~ Renae A. Sauter

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

~ Michele Jennae

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

~ Kamand Kojouri

With Bruford, the album was One Of A Kind. All-instrumental, it possessed the kind of focused vision that allowed for no ifs or buts. With the unnerving confidence of youth, it had This Is What We Do And This Is How We Do It stamped all over it.

~ Bill Bruford

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

~ Irving Stone

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

~ A.p.j. Abdul Kalam

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

~ Criss Jami

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

~ Criss Jami

The greatest knowledge ever created is the one created when one is challenged or criticized by his/her subordinate. Creativity lies in challenges and criticisms .

~ Adewale Osunsakin

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

~ Doris P. Johnson

Your Core Values are the glue that holds your business together.

~ Doris P. Johnson

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

~ Doris P. Johnson

Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.

~ Pearl Zhu

Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.

~ Debasish Mridha

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

~ Criss Jami

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

~ Amit Kalantri

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I write to understand what I know.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Creativity is the key to discovery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.

~ Amit Kalantri

Leaders don’t hide good news from their followers. As long as they discover knowledge, they share knowledge. They leave part of them with people they meet; hence they are hardly missed when they are gone.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don’t leave people empty handed. They give them part of themselves through knowledge sharing and influence creation.

~ Israelmore Ayivor