Creativity Quotes
Here's to the moments when you realize the simple things are wonderful and enough.
Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.
By its nature, what you yearn for is most often intimidating. It produces, and itself is, a question, and one that is not easy to engage or answer.
Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.
My intention is not to define a perfect life and then cause an unhappy analysis of what you are not doing correctly or are incapable of doing.
If you are “playing” too much or “working” too much, you will have a reaction on the other side, which indicates your pace is off, too slow or too fast.
Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a "consecrated ingenuity".
I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.
Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation.
The exact proportion and combination of the qualities within you, as they are, even while you search and struggle for them to be different or better, is a unique beauty.
A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.
In making a clear distinction between desire (answer) and yearning (question), we inevitably end up back at personal purpose.
What you have to do to achieve what you want necessitates the creative actualization of the totality of your being as it is. Nothing more, but also nothing less.
The challenges are illusions, but necessary ones to determine if you can see through them.
Don't try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think!
What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.
If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship.
Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems).
I think that as a species we’ve played at being the self-indulgent, spoiled adolescent way too long, and now there are permanent damages and absolute risks that most people are ignoring.
Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so.
The purest definition of “religious” is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.
Group idea sessions rarely work. Why? Members too busy knocking down insights to hear the tap-tap of revelation
We do have some capacity to determine how things evolve, and how we evolve, individually and as a community or race. That’s a tremendous freedom and a tremendous responsibility.
Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.
He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.
If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.
Why do you paint, Nona?"...'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.
Creative energy is sacred and divine. Those who are exploring their creativity in the world are ultimately exploring their relationship with all that is sacred.
Do what you love to do, and do it with both seriousness and lightness. At least then you will know that you have tried and that--whatever the outcome--you have traveled a noble path.
Creativity is an inherently human trait that allowed us to dominate our environment and make our way to the top of the food chain.
We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.
As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .
When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.
I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.
Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it
Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.
If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.
A true conversation is a co-creation.