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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. (Ansel Adams)
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness. (Josef Albers)
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. (Brian W. Aldiss)
Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows this is ready to become something higher and stronger than a bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations. He who does this has become the conscious and intelligent wielder of his mental powers. (James Allen)
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. (Maya Angelou)
The essential ingredient for creativity is wasting time. (Anonymous)
Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. (Silvano Arieti)
No one has ever written or painted, sculpted, modeled, built, invented, except to get out of hell. (Antonin Artaud)
More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator. (Margaret Atwood)
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love. (Francis Bacon)
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. (Frank X Barron)
Creativity is a lifestyle, and ideas are the product and lifeblood of that lifestyle. (Miles G. Batt)
There is no one definitive creative path. There are many ways to be creative – not only intuitive ways but organized, logical ways, too. (Theresa Bayer)
The true locus of creativity is not the genetic process prior to the work but the work itself as it lives in the experience of the beholder. (Monroe Beardsley)
I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied. Then, in my head, I begin to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth... I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle, as if it had been cast, and only the labour of writing it down remains. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God. (Ingmar Bergman)
Creation is such an elusive thing, for the more we think we are in control, the more we remove ourselves from the actual creation. (Betty Jean Billups)
Creativity is not a motive, it's simply an attitude of open-mindedness. (Eleanor Blair)
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create. (William Blake)
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. (Edward de Bono)
The creative effort is a lot like sex. It's not so much the equipment you have as what is in your mind. The real excitement and beauty is in what we think and feel and what we do about it. (Kelly Borsheim)
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. (Johannes Brahms)
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. (Van Wyck Brooks)
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. (Pearl S. Buck)
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. (Pearl S. Buck)
The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made. (Ferruccio Busoni)
The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity. (Julia Cameron)
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.' (Julia Cameron)
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. (Joseph Campbell)
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Frank Capra)
For me, creating art is accessing a shining sliver of divinity – which is all positive, loving energy. When I go to a place of negativity and fear, I find that my access is denied. (Michael Carpenter)
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect - and, yes, wonder - at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter. (Pablo Casals)
Creativity is an essential part of being human, a vital force without which we can exist, but not truly live. (Ann Cashman)
The emotional mind creates, and the rational mind explains it. Another way of saying this is, your 'heart' perceives it and your 'head' translates it. (Alvaro Castagnet)
When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for. (Coco Chanel)
All who are creative, in whatever way, are doing something very important to the well being of the world. (Sandra Chantry)
Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively. (Guy Claxton)
There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident. (Betty Comden)
Creativity is a mindset, an attitude. Regardless of how we feel - low or high or in between - creativity is always there. (Nikki Coulombe)
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. (Stephen R. Covey)
The making of a work of art is a sort of replay of the birth of consciousness – the separation of object from subject, the world from one's self. (Warren Criswell)
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. (Mary Daly)
CREATIVITY. Nothing would evolve and change without creativity - a unique power which is worth uncovering in each of us. (Jack Dickerson)
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. (Lou Dorfsman)
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. (Fyodor Dostoevski)
Creativity is work that goes some place: it is sustained effort toward an ideal. (Michael Drury)
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. (Marcel Duchamp)
From this [drawing], the treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work. (Albrecht Durer)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. (Albert Einstein)
Creativity is the residue of time wasted. (Albert Einstein)
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition. (Max Ernst)
I guess when we become creative we move our lives onto a different energy flow or something. (Marnie Evans)
Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being. (Dorothy Fadiman)
To be truly creative, you have to work beyond what you know. Pushing the envelope is what being an artist is all about. (John Ferrie)
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? (Bernice Fitz-Gibbon)
Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished. (Marie-Louise von Franz)
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna Freud)
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. (Erich Fromm)
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. (Erich Fromm)
Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man. (Naum Gabo)
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. (John W. Gardner)
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. (Robert Genn)
Creativity is not something you pluck off a shelf, it only becomes evident after years of practice, experimentation and effort. (Don Getz)
As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I – something that is my life – the power to create. (Vincent van Gogh)
Creativity is no big deal. (Natalie Goldberg)
I never got a job I didn't create for myself. (Ruth Gordon)
To be creative, relax and let your mind go to work, otherwise the result is either a copy of something you did before or reads like an army manual. (Kenneth H. Gordon, Jr.)
Creativity and love surely come from the same source, and both have no boundaries. It all depends on how we use them. (Nancy Green)
While dreams are the language of the soul, creativity is its voice. (Hap Hagood)
Creativity is not reliant on limiting access to media. Neither is the use of media, of new techniques just to "see" what they can do as a form of art... Is the artist saying something we can hear... no matter what the language? (Cherie Hanson)
You can have no recipe with art. If you follow a recipe, you're negating the creative act. (Denise Hare)
The creative urge we humans feel from birth – to draw, paint, sing, dance and decorate ourselves and our surroundings – is largely stifled by left-brained, bottom-line driven education and lifestyle. (Pat Hart)
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. (Robert Henri)
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. (Hans Hofmann)
-on The Group of Seven...
A representative painting of a mountain is simply a copy of what is reflected on the eye's retina. A true painting of a mountain is a more or less imperfect record of what transpires in the soul of the person behind the retina. (F. B. Hoosier)
Creative activity is more than a mere cultural frill, it is a crucial factor of human experience, the means of self-revelation, the basis of empathy with others; it inspires both individualism and responsibility, the giving and the sharing of experience. (Tom Hudson)
Exaggeration and modification are the undisputed prerogative of the creative artist. (Charles Sargeant Jagger)
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. (Steve Jobs)
Creativity is the art of courage. (Anne Michelle Johal)
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up. (Angelina Jolie)
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by
history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. (Carl Jung)
The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hands to execute. (Junius)
In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much." (Pauline Kael)
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it. (Louis Kahn)
The true work of art is born from the Artist: a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. (Wassily Kandinsky)
Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is "to fit together" and we all do this every day. (Corita Kent)
The creative process for me unfolds in three stages that I call the search, focus and application. (Earl Grenville Killeen)
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact – in the future. (Paul Klee)
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn. (Paul Klee)
Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. (George Kneller)
Build Yourself Wings. Fly straight ahead. Walk a straight line. Visit. Leave a special sign on the door. Make a gift of words. Mark your path with books. With clothes. With food. Join two distant places. Two rocks. Two people. Bridge a river. Build a city of sand. Raise up a mound. (Milan Knizak)
Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes. (Peter Koestenbaum)
We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting. (Frantisek Kupka)
Creativity without implementation is irresponsibility. (Ted Leavitt)
The creative adult is the child who has survived. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness. (Daniel J. Levitin)
One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new. (Harvey Mackay)
Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving. (Eric Maisel)
Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity. (Eric Maisel)
Creativity is a commodity that must be paid for. (Stanley Marcus)
The process of creating is an attack on, and excavation of, the demons that intimidate and guard at the gates of the art that one seeks to attain, and how necessary is the fight to get through and pass them. (Jo Ann Martielli)
Use your creative mind. Give it a chance to come out and play. You will find it is unique and different from all others. (Billie F. Mathis)
Creativity takes courage. (Henri Matisse)
Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center. (Rollo May)
To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act. (Margaret Mead)
The great creative individual... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. (John Stuart Mill)
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. (Charles Mingus)
You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it. (Joni Mitchell)
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. (Marilyn Monroe)
It is because he was unhappy that God created the world. (Henri de Montherlant)
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control, almost like God creating something. (Henry Moore)
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. (Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. (Stephen Nachmanovitch)
Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when... (Pablo Neruda)
My work is about rhythm, relationships, continuity with the past... the stuff beneath the skin of life. I follow the dictum of Anais Nin: 'Create against destruction.' (Sandra Nickeson)
Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower which must be cautiously cared for
and protected from the harsh elements of "human weather." (Elle Nicolai)
You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it. (Kimon Nicolaides)
It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life. (Barthold Georg Niebuhr)
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice. (Liam O'Flaherty)
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. (Pablo Picasso)
Creating is a response to the gift of life. (Rosalind Pinsent)
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. (William Plomer)
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. (Norman Podhoretz)
-the War of Art
The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted; soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes. (Steven Pressfield)
Every act of creation is like a newborn child, needing loving care and lots of attention, consuming your time and energy, and not necessarily profit-making. (Faith Puleston)
There are people who are just plain supposed to be writing – or painting or sculpting or dancing or... This isn't optional, and often isn't even fun – it's as important as breathing. (Darylynn Starr Rank)
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. (Sir Ken Robinson)
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. (Harold Rosenberg)
Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. (Henry Royce)
Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness. (Oliver Sacks)
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. (Carl Sagan)
To create is to manifest what you feel. (Marjory L. Sampson)
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another, but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. (George Santayana)
While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks. (R. Keith Sawyer)
Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully. (Judith Schaechter)
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Creativity is about intention, expression, and choice... At once cerebral and yet visceral, it is what you think about in your head and what you feel in your gut. (Randall Sexton)
Each is given a bag of tools, / A shapeless mass and a book of rules; / And each must make, ere life is flown, / A stumbling block or a stepping stone. (R. L. Sharpe)
Creativity is... seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. (Michele Shea)
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. (Gail Sheehy)
Creativity is as much about identifying possibilities as it is to do with flashes of clear direction. (Tony Smibert)
If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want. (Stephen Sondheim)
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation. (Gertrude Stein)
...there never was a world for her. Except the one she sang and singing made. (Wallace Stevens)
If you allow creativity to do its work without interruption or distraction, you'll do a better job. (Peter Suedfeld)
The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music. (Rabindranath Tagore)
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. (Mother Teresa)
The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it. (Twyla Tharp)
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind. (Eckhart Tolle)
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. (Robert Toth)
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. (Brenda Ueland)
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. (John Updike)
Leonardo da Vinci paints only what he sees, but I create. (Arthur Villeneuve)
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places. (Leonardo da Vinci)
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. (Voltaire)
When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there – to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting... (Errollyn Wallen)
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. (Oscar Wilde)
In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force. (Stuart Wilde)
To create a lively painting on a dead canvas is like hearing the unheard, feeling the unseen, painting the absence, moving the unmoveable, speaking to the silence and bringing it to a meaningful conversation. (Mona Youssef)
To create is to celebrate one's connection
to the cosmos. (Burnell Yow!)
Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. (Joseph Zinker)
You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don't know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. (Gary Zukav)
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