Creativity Quotes
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"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"
"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it."
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses."
"The knowledge of all things is possible"
"Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss."
"Instead of reciting her an original love poem using words, I think I’ll use my tongue to more creatively explore the deepest parts of her."
"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please."
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"
"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."
"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."
"The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little."
"The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him."
"People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory."
"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."
"True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’."
"Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done."
"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."
"What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul."
"The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there."
"Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library."
"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."
"You don’t make art out of good intentions."
"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."
"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."
"The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake."
"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves."
"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate."
"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."
"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault."
"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."
"Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest."
"Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity."
"Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity."
"A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind."
"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly."
"It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life."
"When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift."
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