Creativity Quotes
It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.
The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.
Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?
Instead of thinking outside the box, Get rid of the box.
I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.
Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
People who follow their joy discover a depth of creativity and talent that inspires the world.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
When we learn to eat properly we begin to rebuild our bodies and to fulfill our purpose on this planet to grow in health, creativity, wisdom, and compassion.
It's not just about creativity. It's about the person you're becoming while you're creating.
We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.