367 quotes
“You cant use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.”
— Maya Angelou
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.”
— Carl Jung
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple that is creativity”
— Charles Mingus
“Creativity takes courage”
— Henri Matisse
“To see things in the seed, that is genius.”
— Lao Tzu
“Creativity is subtraction”
— Austin Kleon
“Where there is nothing everything is possible”
— Rem Koolhaas
“Design is not for philosophy it is for life”
— Issey Miyake
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. All creativity begins with curiosity.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“I work into the unknown every time”
— Rei Kawakubo
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely in your creative work.”
— Auguste Rodin
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”
— Banksy
“Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart”
— Kenzo Tange
“I want to make the invisible visible”
— Rachel Whiteread
“Art is hard work nothing else the rest is nonsense”
— Kara Walker
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library full of creative possibility.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom creatively.”
— Anais Nin
“If there is a book that you want to read but it hasnt been written yet you must be the one to write it”
— Toni Morrison
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers”
— James Baldwin
“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created for creativity.”
— Yoko Ono
“The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say”
— Italo Calvino
“If your everyday life seems poor do not blame it. Blame yourself and tell yourself that you are not creative enough to call forth its riches.”
— Rilke
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint”
— Edward Hopper
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them”
— Walt Disney
“Everyone is an artist in their own way”
— Joseph Beuys
“The potter is the rival of God, for he too creates forms from clay.”
— Al-Jahiz
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed creatively.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.”
— Unknown
“For every failure there is an alternative course of action you just have to find it”
— Mary Kay Ash
“The creative adult is the child who survived the pressures to conform.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done”
— Anni Albers
“Do not play what is there play what is not there”
— Miles Davis
“The imagination is the spur of delights; all depends upon it; it is the mainspring of everything.”
— Marquis de Sade
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Take an object do something to it then do something else to it”
— Jasper Johns
“A creative life is an amplified life a bigger life a happier life”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“You dont start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking its good stuff. Then gradually you get better. That is the creative process.”
— Octavia Butler
“I think that is the real reason I make music because of the physical sensation it gives me”
— Bjork
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself through creative truth-telling.”
— Albert Camus
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Creative work breaks through inner ice.”
— Franz Kafka
“Art should be something that liberates your soul provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further through creativity.”
— Keith Haring
“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again”
— Renzo Piano
“If you are free you need to free somebody else. If you have some power then your job is to empower somebody else through creativity.”
“Creativity is always a leap of faith you are faced with a blank page blank easel or an empty stage”
— Julia Cameron
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“Be yourself because everyone else is already taken. Authentic creativity flows from authenticity.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
— Edward Gibbon
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication in creative work.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Art saved my life I was a very angry depressed person”
— Niki de Saint Phalle
“The piano has eighty eight keys and every single one of them is the right note”
— Thelonious Monk
“Perception is the medium through which I work”
— Bridget Riley
“The mind is a muscle and creativity keeps it strong”
— Yvonne Rainer
“Creativity takes courage. There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now only much much better”
— Laurie Anderson
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Creativity requires different reading.”
— Haruki Murakami
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation creativity and change.”
— Brene Brown
“He who would be a creator must first be a destroyer of established values.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry”
— John Cage
“I pray that there will be peace in the world through art”
— Yayoi Kusama
“An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God”
— Patti Smith
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldnt say any other way things I had no words for.”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness”
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.”
— Thomas Edison
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
— Edgar Degas
“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
— Wassily Kandinsky
“A house is a work of art and art is a spiritual shelter”
— Kazuo Shinohara
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
— Nietzsche
“I would like to make a film to tell children its good to be alive”
— Hayao Miyazaki
“You fail only if you stop writing and creating. Success in creativity is staying in the game.”
— Ray Bradbury
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.”
“The creative adult is the child who survived”
— Ursula K Le Guin
“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence and faith is the greatest act of creative trust”
— Osho
“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”
“Space and light and order are things that men need just as much as bread or a place to sleep”
— Le Corbusier
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do creatively.”
— Rumi
“The job of the artist and creative person is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”
— Arthur Miller
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Every good painter paints what he is. Creativity is self-expression.”
— Jackson Pollock
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.”
— Nikola Tesla
“Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”
— Mortimer Adler
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing”
— Marina Abramovic
“There is no must in art because art is free and creativity cannot be constrained.”
“The purpose of art and creativity is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. The same applies to creativity.”
“Creativity is a habit and the best creativity is a result of good work habits”
— Twyla Tharp
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
— Voltaire
“Encounter is the beginning of all art”
— Lee Ufan
“I want to alter the way space is perceived and used”
— Gordon Matta-Clark
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way”
— Grace Hopper
“The present is theirs. The future for which I really worked is mine. Creativity always works for the future.”
“I want to challenge the conventional use of materials in architecture”
— Shigeru Ban
“An idea is salvation by imagination”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. Creativity is that courage made visible.”
— E.E. Cummings
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end then stop. This is the simplest creative advice.”
— Lewis Carroll
“I want to empower women through my clothing and that is the constant thread”
— Alexander McQueen
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“A creative life is an amplified life. It is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a hell of a lot more interesting life.”
“Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in ones own culture.”
— Howard Gardner
“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art”
— Sol LeWitt
“The creative adult is the child who survived and kept alive the flame of wonder burning bright”
“The road to hell is paved with works in progress that never get finished. Complete your creative projects.”
— Philip Roth
“I want to create an experience of wordless thought”
— James Turrell
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
“Art is what you can get away with”
— Andy Warhol
“Knowledge makes us more creative”
— Einstein
“Unused creativity is not benign it metastasizes into grief and sorrow”
“I am invisible understand simply because people refuse to see me. Creativity makes the invisible visible.”
— Ralph Ellison
“The only journey is the one within”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The details are not the details they make the design”
— Charles Eames
“The essence of pop art is about connecting high and low culture”
— Takashi Murakami
“It is what it is and it aint nothing else”
— Dan Flavin
“Invention does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Creativity organizes chaos into beauty.”
— Mary Shelley
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool”
— Richard Feynman
“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work”
— Gustave Flaubert
“Through color I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness”
— Alma Thomas
“To play a wrong note is insignificant to play without passion is inexcusable”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe”
— Gordon Parks
“The first step of creativity is to stop being afraid of failure”
— Brian Eno
“No artist is ahead of his time he is his time”
— Martha Graham
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
— Albert Einstein
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“To think is to create.”
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
“Every man has his own creativity an innate gift an innate calling and he must discover it.”
— Hermann Hesse
“Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.”
— Salvador Dalí
“Everyone is an artist”
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations”
— Rollo May
“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence”
“Lesser artists borrow great artists steal”
— Igor Stravinsky
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
— Aristotle
“Art when really understood is the province of every human being”
— Robert Henri
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work on our creative projects.”
— Chuck Close
“Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next”
— Agnes de Mille
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
“The single story creates stereotypes. Creativity requires multiple stories and perspectives.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
— Bruce Lee
“What is a legacy but planting seeds in a garden you never get to see”
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it has not been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”
“Everybody is talented original and has something important to say”
— Brenda Ueland
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Creativity is selective theft.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new creative eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there through creativity.”
— William Carlos Williams
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world”
— Frida Kahlo
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different”
— Coco Chanel
“All art is autobiographical the pearl is the oysters autobiography”
— Federico Fellini
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
— Epictetus
“Each line now is the actual experience its own innate history”
— Cy Twombly
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”
— Theodore Dreiser
“The secret of getting ahead creatively is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for”
“I dont think that architecture is only about shelter but also about the pleasure of discovery”
— Zaha Hadid
“Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals”
— Oscar Niemeyer
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
— Erich Fromm
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. That person has creativity too.”
“Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful.”
— Shakti Gawain
“A creative life is an amplified life it is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a more interesting life”
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages and it is easier to stay at home. But creativity demands the voyage.”
— Gwendolyn Brooks
“The future is now in the hands of the creative”
— Nam June Paik
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. This is creativity.”
— Michelangelo
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera”
— Dorothea Lange
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I know that is poetry and creativity.”
— Emily Dickinson
“If you can dream it you can do it. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them creatively.”
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
— Sylvia Plath
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
— Wayne Dyer
“A creative life is an amplified life it is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a hell of a lot more interesting life”
“No artist is pleased. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others through creativity.”
“The creative instinct can be killed but it cannot be taught. It must be discovered within.”
— Henry Miller
“In a mad world only the mad are sane. And in a uncreative world only the creative are truly alive.”
— Akira Kurosawa
“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”
“Creativity is always a leap of faith you face a blank page”
“The secret to creativity is to have the courage to fail”
— Tina Seelig
“Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas to think in nonlinear ways and to make unexpected leaps”
— Adam Grant
“Every child is an artist the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy your creativity.”
“Simplicity is complexity resolved into harmony”
— Constantin Brancusi
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
“Good design is as little design as possible”
— Dieter Rams
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Read everything. Trash genius classics comics. Read everything because creativity feeds on everything.”
— William Faulkner
“Design is thinking made visual”
— Saul Bass
“There are no mistakes only happy accidents in the creative process”
— Bob Ross
“The value of art is in the observer and when you find out what you truly like in art you will have found out what you like in life”
— Agnes Martin
“You have to love dancing to stick to it because it gives you nothing back”
— Merce Cunningham
“Write what should not be forgotten. Create what needs to exist.”
— Isabel Allende
“If we opened people up we would find landscapes”
— Agnes Varda
“Everything is sculpture any material any idea without hindrance born into space”
— Isamu Noguchi
“I am for an art that is political erotical and mystical”
— Claes Oldenburg
“The work of art is a scream of freedom”
— Christo
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Dreams fuel creativity.”
— Langston Hughes
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere creatively.”
— Anne Lamott
“The artist exists because the world is not perfect”
— Andrei Tarkovsky
“The creative eye does not see things as they are but as it is. Creativity transforms perception.”
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something they feel a little guilty because they didnt really do it they just saw something.”
— Steve Jobs
“My goal is to erase architecture and make buildings that melt into the landscape”
— Kengo Kuma
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
— Thomas Mann
“I have a way of filming things and telling stories that is my own”
— Wes Anderson
“I have forced myself to contradict myself to avoid conforming to my own taste”
— Marcel Duchamp
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
“You dont start out writing good stuff you start out writing bad stuff”
“Life is meant to be fun and joyous and fulfilling. Creative work is how we make it so.”
— Jim Henson
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery”
— James Joyce
“Art is not about understanding or knowledge or explanation but of experience”
— Ruth Asawa
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. This is the creative path.”
— Samuel Beckett
“Art does not show people what to do yet engaging with art asks us to think about why things are as they are”
— Olafur Eliasson
“Because we are denied knowledge of our history we are deprived of standing on each others shoulders”
— Judy Chicago
“A work needs only to be interesting”
— Donald Judd
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Inspiration is for amateurs the rest of us just show up and get to work”
“I write to discover what I know. Writing is a creative act of self-revelation.”
— Flannery OConnor
“Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it. Perfection kills creativity.”
— Salvador Dali
“To create one's own world takes courage.”
— Georgia O'Keeffe
“Creativity is the power to reject the past and change the status quo”
— Ai Weiwei
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity because if you are passionate about something then you are more willing to take risks”
— Yo-Yo Ma
“Art is the highest form of hope”
— Gerhard Richter
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction and create.”
“A room without books is a body without a soul.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do creatively.”
— Bob Dylan
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Drawing is a way of thinking about things not just representing them”
— Richard Serra
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context”
— Eero Saarinen
“Mystery is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
“Life doesnt last art doesnt last it doesnt matter”
— Eva Hesse
“Music is the space between the notes. Creativity lives in the spaces between obvious things.”
— Claude Debussy
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright and make it their own through creativity.”
— Aaron Sorkin
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture”
— Jean Cocteau
“Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory.”
— Joshua Reynolds
“Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal and transform through creativity.”
— T.S. Eliot
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Art has to move you and design does not unless its a good design for a bus”
— David Hockney
“A word after a word after a word is power. Creative writing is the accumulation of small powerful acts.”
— Margaret Atwood
“You are only given a little spark of madness you must not lose it”
— Robin Williams
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
— Claude Monet
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves.”
“To be creative means to be in love with life.”
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste in creativity.”
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, resistance, or madness.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Creativity takes courage to express what is within”
“Art is for everybody not just the chosen few”
“To be an artist means never to avert ones eyes”
“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”
— Pablo Neruda
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream but together it is reality”
“I think what makes art art is that it comes from a place that is beyond explanation”
— Ellsworth Kelly
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure period”
“I think most artists create out of despair the very nature of creation is not a performing glory”
— Louise Nevelson
“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. Creativity erodes all barriers.”
— Adrienne Rich
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Every good painter paints what he is inside”
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing but the making something out of it after it is found.”
— James Russell Lowell
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous — to poetry.”
“I am not interested in how people move but what moves them”
— Pina Bausch
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness”
— Werner Herzog
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen creative possibilities.”
— John Steinbeck
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way”
— Edward de Bono
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people”
— Annie Leibovitz
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality build a new model that makes the old one obsolete”
— Buckminster Fuller
“All of us who do creative work get into it because we have good taste”
— Ira Glass
“Color is a power which directly influences the soul”
“The only difference between a hero and a villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish”
— Chadwick Boseman
“Lesser artists borrow great artists steal. True creativity transforms what it takes.”
“Nothing is original steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration”
— Jim Jarmusch
“There are no rules that is how art is born how breakthroughs happen”
— Helen Frankenthaler
“The day is coming when a single carrot freshly observed will set off a revolution”
— Paul Cezanne
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my life. Creativity is wakefulness.”
— Zadie Smith
“Creativity is not a gift from the gods but the product of preparation and effort”
“When one door closes another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us creatively.”
— Alexander Graham Bell
“Everything I do is for the seventeen year old version of myself”
— Virgil Abloh
“You dont take a photograph you make it”
— Ansel Adams
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery”
— Francis Bacon
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. True creativity is unconcerned with audience.”
— Allen Ginsberg
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“All human beings have three lives: public private and secret. Creativity bridges all three.”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The past is always tense the future perfect”
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
“The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing”
— Seth Godin
“To practice any art no matter how well or badly is a way to make your soul grow. So do it with creativity.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having creatively.”
“What we call the way you see the world determines art”
“Buy less choose well make it last and make it meaningful”
— Vivienne Westwood
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way creatively. Every fragment has potential.”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that my creative process involves reconstructing.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro
“If there is a book that you want to read but it hasnt been written yet then you must write it. That is the creative impulse.”
“I grew up in this town my poetry was born between the hill and the river it took its voice from the rain and like the timber it steeped itself in creative forests.”
“Without change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement.”
— William Pollard
“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”
“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.”
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
“Ideas are like fish you dont make the fish you catch the fish”
— David Lynch
“Gratitude opens the door to the power the wisdom the creativity of the universe.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Dont think about making art just get it done. Let everyone else decide if its good or bad whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding make even more art.”
“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria who were frightened of life who were desperate to reach out to another person through creative expression.”
— Tennessee Williams
“If you feel something calling you to dance or paint or sing, it is the length of your life speaking to you.”
— Picasso
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“There is no must in art because art is free.”
“Dont only practice your art but force your way into its secrets for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine through creativity.”
— Beethoven
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
“There is a vitality a life force an energy a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time this expression is unique and if you block it it will never exist through any other medium.”
“The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom. He speaks to creativity itself.”
— Joseph Conrad
“Writers dont write from experience though many are reluctant to admit that they dont. If you wrote from experience youd get maybe one book maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy and creativity.”
— Nikki Giovanni
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
“I write you and in writing am transformed”
— Clarice Lispector
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness”
— David Foster Wallace
“To an engineer good enough means perfect but to an artist there is no perfect”
— Alexander Calder
“The best creative ideas come from the ugliest moments of doubt”
— Pharrell Williams
“If you practice an art be proud of it and make it proud of you”
— Philip Glass
“An artist should not lie to himself or others”
“The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely”
— Joni Mitchell
“I dont know where Im going from here but I promise it wont be boring. Creativity ensures that.”
— David Bowie
“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
— Patricia Highsmith
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human”
“A day without laughter is a day wasted in creative spirit”
— Charlie Chaplin
“To fly we have to have resistance. Creative friction produces the lift that carries us higher.”
— Maya Lin
“The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.”
— Terence
“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen”
— Diane Arbus
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In all my works light is an important controlling factor”
— Tadao Ando
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Creativity demands difference.”
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
“At the deepest level the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source and what is really healing is courage”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
“The walls become the expression of the architectural space”
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings of creativity.”
— William Blake
“I am always doing what I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it. This is creativity.”
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none in creativity.”
“If you want to be creative stay in part a child with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Fashions fade style is eternal”
— Yves Saint Laurent
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Creativity thrives on nonsense.”
— Roald Dahl
“The present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mine”
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
— Piet Mondrian
“Real things dont need to try to be truthful they just need to be”
— Peter Zumthor
“When you cease to fear your solitude a new creativity awakens in you”
— John O Donohue
“I have never wished to cater to the crowd for what the crowd wants is what it already knows”
— Virgil Thomson
“Art is a guarantee of sanity in a chaotic world”
— Louise Bourgeois
“Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness”
— Frank Gehry
“Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it”
“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”
— John Cleese
“Creativity takes courage.”
“Money is only used for two things. One it is to make you comfortable and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become.”
— Bob Proctor
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