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