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