Creative Quotes

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

Dreams are fuel for creation.

An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force.

The Heart & Mind when in unison is the most powerful creative state for bringing your desires alive within your reality.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself with trivialities — as if your love could be any more complete. But I write, in the first place,because of you, my muse. I write for your green eyes to glance at my humble words and for the pleasure of hearing you utter them.

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

Action is the mother of creation.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before—then there is creativity.

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature. A marijuana high can do something for a user similar to what this time-lapse footage does. The enhancement of episodic memory and the acceleration of associative streams of memories can alter and enhance our recognition of patterns in our lives in various ways. If we are presented with quick associative chains of past experiences, we can see a pattern in a body of information that is usually not at once presented to our “inner eye” as such.

Creativity is one of the highest transmissions of love.

God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

Masters are not created by anyone, They are just GOD gifted to change the WORLD.

Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem.

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

Perspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn.

My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!

The best way to be unique and set ourselves apart from Society is to create. Use your imagination and apply action towards it.

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yesterday’ to construct the sturdy portal to my ‘tomorrow.

Don't hold it, shouldn't stop it. Let it come, let it flow. Let it reach the positivity, bring the happiness

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.

Get in touch with your intuitive and creative powers, bring your desires to life in order to create a life of bliss.

Be innovative and creative

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

One thing I can say for sure is that she was very clever. Not in the way others expect you to be – intelligent, witty and concise, but in the way people should be: creative and consistent.

… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having been taught how to freely speculate, how to profoundly question, and how to playfully define. Spontaneity of speculation being synonymous with the philosophical-poetic, the philosophical-poetic with the rural philosopher-poet, and by roundelay the rural philosopher-poet thee with the spontaneity of speculation be. And by the way of the rural what may we say? A philosopher-poet of illimitable space we say. Iohannes Scottus Ériugena the metaphor of old salutes you; salutes your lyrical ear and your skilful strumming of the rippling harp. (Source: Hearing in the Write, Canto 19, Ivy-muffled)

Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all.

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be--it is everything.

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

Utilise the combined power of creative consciousness of the heart, mind and higher self to manifest, modify and manage your total reality. Create a state of Bliss where everything is in perfect balance.

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed.

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

My artificial creations will be better than nature's natural creations.

Leadership’s primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leadership.

O' melancholy,hectic chill for human soul,herewith dismal presence,any spirit does descent.

I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived on longer than I do. Perseverance and teaching yourself, every day through stress and hard work proves shit really does progress without you realizing. One minute you're an amateur, knowing nothing, not even the basics. The next you can put pen to paper, write a song, and create art in such little time! It's crazy beautiful.