Creativity is the spark that ignites new ideas and drives innovation. Whether you're an artist, entrepreneur, or simply someone seeking motivation, inspirational quotes can provide the boost you need to think differently and overcome challenges. In this curated collection of the top 146 inspirational creativity quotes, you'll find powerful words from some of the greatest minds to fuel your imagination and encourage you to embrace your creative potential.
1. “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun” - Pablo Picasso
2. “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” - Beatrix Potter
3. “Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.” - Leonard Bernstein
4. “It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...” - Eudora Welty
5. “There is creative reading as well as creative writing.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” - Marcel Duchamp
7. “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” - Rumi
8. “Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.” - Mark Twain
9. “Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.” - John Steinbeck
10. “To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.” - Akira Kurosawa
11. “Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.” - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
12. “The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.” - Arthur Koestler
13. “Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again.""Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?” - James A. Owen
14. “I dream in fire but work in clay.” - Arthur Machen
15. “Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.” - Flannery O'Connor
16. “If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing” - Glenn Gould
17. “He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!” - Sidney Howard
18. “Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?” - Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
19. “The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.” - Katherine Mansfield
20. “Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.” - J.K. Rowling
22. “The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.” - Heraclitus
23. “It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.” - Robert Hughes
24. “The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them.” - Michael Richardson
25. “My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.” - Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
26. “He had thrilled to his own power only in the throes of sex, when he didn't have the presence of mind to know that pleasure wouldn't last forever, and in the flush of freedom, when he was too innocent to know he wasn't free.Now he seized the power that came from that collision of sex with freedom called love.” - steve erickson
27. “True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.” - Arthur Rimbaud
28. “In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.” - Gustave Flaubert
29. “How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that…we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.” - Alice Weaver Flaherty
30. “I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.” - Gustave Flaubert
31. “The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.” - Gustave Flaubert
32. “You don’t make art out of good intentions.” - Gustave Flaubert
33. “Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.” - Julian Barnes
34. “Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” - Julian Barnes
35. “Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that he had already razed and conquered. Not only is it impossible to know from where we come, but also from whom we come: nothing in common, in any case, with those who pass for being the “authors of our days” – which days? Better to invent a genealogy based on pure whim and the leanings of our hearts, but what if they don’t agree?” - André Breton
36. “No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.” - Jan Neruda
37. “If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.” - Pablo Picasso
38. “He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!” - Charles Baudelaire
39. “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” - Richard Buckminster Fuller
40. “Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]” - Anna Quindlen
41. “Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.” - Karl Lagerfeld
42. “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.” - Karl Lagerfeld
43. “SOWING LIGHTNINGSeizeBolts of lightning from the skyAnd plant them in fields of life.They will grow like tender sprouts of fire.Charge somber thoughtsWith unexpected flash,You, my lightning in the soil!” - Visar Zhiti
44. “Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.” - Matthew Fox
45. “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.” - Joss Whedon
46. “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” - Maya Angelou
47. “But out of limitations comes creativity.” - Debbie Allen
48. “Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music” - Herbie Hancock
49. “Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.” - Edward De Bono
50. “Innovation is creativity with a job to do.” - John Emmerling
51. “There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.” - Henry Miller
52. “There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.” - G.K. Chesterton
53. “DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist?EA: It didn't -- it stunted it entirely. I gave up over a year of my life and career helping Billy with his flop of an album and designing and building all of the costumes for his music video. With Courtney, we were friends, but I spent years working to record and promote her flop of an album only to find that my value increased every time I peed in an orange juice bottle so that she could fake her way through a drug test. Not exactly a haven for artistic growth.” - Emilie Autumn
54. “How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a while to smoke a pipe before proceeding on their separate ways. No more.Alone. Alone to the very end. I… every one of us. But to have been granted the grace of meeting and touching so fleetingly: is that not the most awesome and wonderful thing one can hope for in this world?” - Andre P. Brink
55. “Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.” - Quentin Crisp
56. “Arrogance kills creativity.” - A.M. Riley
57. “Inside CriticsThe critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we might hear from the outside. Our "inside critics" have intimate knowledge of us and can zero in on our weakest spots. You might be told by the critics that you're too fat, too old, too young, not intelligent enough, a quitter, not logical, prone to try too many things...It's all balderdash!Some elements of these may be true, and it's completely up to you how they affect you. Inside critics are really just trying to protect you. You can:Learn to dialogue with them.Give them new jobs.Turn them into allies.You can also dismantle/exterminate them.” - Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK)
58. “Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.” - Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK)
59. “From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ” - Ray Bradbury
60. “But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.” - Lewis Hyde
61. “Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.” - Adolf Loos
62. “You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.” - Lynda Barry
63. “After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he experienced the approach of what is called inspiration. At such moments the correlation of the forces controlling the artist is, as it were, stood on its head. The ascendancy is no longer with the artist or the state of mind which he is trying to express, but with language, his instrument of expression. Language, the home and dwelling of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music, not in the sense of outward, audible sounds but by virtue of the power and momentum of its inward flow. Then, like the current of a mighty river polishing stones and turning wheels by its very movement, the flow of speech creates in passing, by the force of its own laws, rhyme and rhythm and countless other forms and formations, still more important and until now undiscovered, unconsidered and unnamed.At such moments Yury felt that the main part of his work was not being done by him but by something which was above him and controlling him: the thought and poetry of the world as it was at that moment and as it would be in the future. He was controlled by the next step it was to take in the order of its historical development; and he felt himself to be only the pretext and the pivot setting it in motion....In deciphering these scribbles he went through the usual disappointments. Last night these rough passages had astonished him and moved him to tears by certain unexpectedly successful lines. Now, on re-reading these very lines, he was saddened to find that they were strained and glaringly far-fetched.” - Boris Pasternak
64. “I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.” - Leonard Bernstein
65. “Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.” - Max Ernst
66. “When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.” - Robert McKee
67. “All that remains of the garden city in our own day are traffic-free enclaves, islands in a sea of traffic where the pedestrian leads a legally protected by languishing existence, comparable to that of the North American Indians on their reservations...In reality the modern urbanist regards the city as a gigantic centre of production, geared to the efficient transport of workers and goods, to the accommodation of people and the storage of wares, to industrial and commercial activity. The rest, that is to say creativity, life, is optional and comes under the heading of recreation and leisure activities.” - Tom McDonough
68. “Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.” - Roman Payne
69. “The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.” - Author-Poet Aberjhani
70. “I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.” - Jim Butcher
71. “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.” - Ken Robinson
72. “The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions.... [W]hen the composition of the group is right—enough people with different perspectives running into one another in unpredictable ways—the group dynamic will take care of itself. All these errant discussions add up. In fact, they may even be the most essential part of the creative process. Although such conversations will occasionally be unpleasant—not everyone is always in the mood for small talk or criticism—that doesn’t mean that they can be avoided. The most creative spaces are those which hurl us together. It is the human friction that makes the sparks.” - Jonah Lehrer
73. “She felt invisible shackles snaking around her wrists and ankles, took a deep breath and said..............” - Taylor Stevens
74. “I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience...War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.” - Howard Zinn
75. “The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .” - Marianne Williamson
76. “Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.” - Ozzie Zehner
77. “This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.” - Steven Pressfield
78. “I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.” - E.A. Bucchianeri
79. “There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.” - Steve Jobs
80. “The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.” - Paul Graham
81. “A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.” - Jostein Gaarder
82. “One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.” - Criss Jami
83. “Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.” - Criss Jami
84. “Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.” - Criss Jami
85. “It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.” - Elizabeth Goudge
86. “Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, “honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” Good to remember…” - Elif Shafak
87. “The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.” - Aberjhani
88. “Gemeinsam aber ist allen Menschen, die des guten Willens sind, dieses: daß unsere Werke uns am Ende beschämen, daß wir immer wieder von vorn beginnen müssen, daß das Opfer immer neu gebracht werden muß.” - Hermann Hesse
89. “If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.” - Hugh MacLeod
90. “Creativity is the residue of time wasted.” - Albert Einstein
91. “Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard” - GBickle
92. “Le nace a uno cierta melodía, la canta uno silenciosamente, en el interior solamente; toda la naturaleza individual se posesiona de la tonada y se deja uno llevar por ella por su fuerza y emotividad, y lo notable es que mientras se adueña de uno se olvida lo fortuito, lo banal y lo burdo, nos armoniza con el universo y nos da fuerzas y alas contra nuestra torpeza y depresiones.” - Herman Hesse
93. “... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.” - E.A. Bucchianeri
94. “While the egg yolks cooled, he directed the beaters at the egg whites, setting the mixer on high speed that sent small bubbles giggling to the side of the bowl, where a few became many until they were a white froth rising up and then lying down again in patters and ridges, leaving an intricate design like the ribs of a leaf in the wake of the beaters” - Erica Bauermeister
95. “De entre los sonidos, palabras y otros elementos triviales, podemos construir juguetes líricos e intelectuales, originar filosofías y canciones llenas de mensajes y consuelo más bellas que el ruin deporte de la fortuna y el destino.” - Hermann Hesse
96. “No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.” - Julia Cameron
97. “Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it's meant for a group of people to work alone. Closed-off desks sprout off of lonely hallways, and in a few obligatory conference rooms a huge table ensures that people are safely separated from one another.” - David Kelley
98. “Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.” - Hugh MacLeod
99. “God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice trial and error. His ways are sure, they may be low but they are always sure.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
100. “Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.” - Tom Hodgkinson
101. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso
102. “It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
103. “We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.” - K.A. Laity
104. “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.” - Criss Jami
105. “No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
106. “Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.” - Ivan Brunetti
107. “If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.” - Austin Kleon
108. “Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
109. “Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.” - Kevin Smith
110. “A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions but also of entire world views, he is the inventor of entire forms of life.” - Paul Karl Feyerabend
111. “as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave.” - Darnell Lamont Walker
112. “Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.” - Kurt Vonnegut
113. “Reality is only for people with no imagination.” - Gavin Freeman
114. “Creativity is a talent we inherit from God.” - Kim Chestney
115. “Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product.” - Jeremy Dean
116. “She has given me a way out.” - Alison Bechdel
117. “It is a burden...(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law."- Susan Cooper ("Merriman" The Dark is Rising)” - Susan Cooper
118. “Creativity is a delicious dream from which I never want to awake.” - K. Ford K.
119. “If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.” - Jonathan Culver
120. “Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” - Steven Pressfield
121. “One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.” - Lionel Suggs
122. “Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.” - E.A. Bucchianeri
123. “If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.” - Rainn Wilson
124. “If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?” - Steve Turner
125. “It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.” - Lois McMaster Bujold
126. “History tells creativity is a result of Soul song.” - APORVAKALA
127. “I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.” - Darnell Lamont Walker
128. “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.” - Piaget
129. “In other words, if Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy showed more than their fair share of pathology it was due less to the requirements of their creative work than to the personal sufferings caused by the unhealthy conditions of a Russian society nearing collapse. If so many American poets and playwrights committed suicide or ended up addicted to drugs and alcohol it was not their creativity that did it but an artistic scene that promised much, gave few rewards and left nine out of ten artists neglected if not ignored.” - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
130. “Often we are identified with either the inner man or woman, while the other side is hidden and unexpressed. Outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner man and female side. Sometimes one side is dominant, while the other side is submissive.” - Swami Dhyan Giten
131. “Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.” - Keri Smith
132. “Traditionally men have created a deep split between the inner and outer world, between body and soul, between the material and spiritual world, between love and money and between male and female qualities. The inner man and woman are related to money, creativity and financial abundance. Through investigating the roots of the inner man and woman, we can find the creative potential of both the inner man and woman. Sometimes can either the inner man or woman also provide financial support for both sides, while the other side has the idea that it cannot support itself financially.” - Swami Dhyan Giten
133. “If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response?” - jay woodman
134. “We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food.We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity.” We are not passive couch potatoes either. “It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short to be alive.” We are also not cogs in a machine. To be so would be to give up our personal freedoms so as to not upset The Machine, whatever that machine is. Creativity keeps us creating the life we wish to live and advancing humanity’s purpose as well.” - Matthew Fox
135. “Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.” - Pat Conroy
136. “You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.” - Matt Chandler
137. “It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.” - Roger Von Oech
138. “Flexibility is a requirement for survival.” - Roger Von Oech
139. “Tomorrow is no hazardous affair, a day like any other day: tomorrow is the result of many yesterdays and comes with a potent, cumulative effect. I am tomorrow what I chose to be yesterday and the day before. It is not possible that tomorrow I may negate and nullify everything that led me to this present moment.” - Henry Miller
140. “What does one do with experience? Do we react negatively, or do we (pro)create from the space of positivity?” - T.F. Hodge
141. “Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth wall, etc. / different types and degrees of cracking produce different arrangements of order and chaos.” - K. J. Bishop
142. “If you're alive, you're creative.” - Patti Digh
143. “What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?” - Patti Digh
144. “What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create” - Cynthia Sue Larson
145. “Within you is the power of unlimited creation.” - Bryant McGill
146. “Something terrible happens to people who don't create, something poisonous. Creating is a necessity for all humans, like breathing. If you don't do it, you suffer.” - K.A. Laity
