Creativity Quotes - Page 30

Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.

Creativity takes courage.

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke.

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have relationships, with multiple ideas, at once. You may devote yourself completely to one idea, for a awhile, but the affairs will never end. There will always be more ideas to romance and more concepts to develop. And all for that wonderful moment when you get to gaze at the complete creation and hold perfection in your arms, for one blissful moment... before your inner-critic starts tearing it to shreds.

Life wants you to thrive in the domain of your own unique creative vision for your yourself.

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

IThe epiphany in this thought is that we simply cannot and do not create in isolation. As I paint my blank canvas others leave their mark on my masterpiece. Many have added colors and textures I knew not existed, greatly improving my creation..and yet...and yet... There are those who have punctured the fine leather and scraped at the rainbows of my mind ... creating stormy patches where there were once colors beaming from the page.

Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

When in crises situation, never mourn along with the crises, rather speak to the crises saying, "Crises what opportunities are you hiding for me.

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.

To require perfection is to invite paralysis.

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence.

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. (“Mad House”)

He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Creativity is at the root of excitement.

None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.

Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.

Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions but independent of them. On days filled with the depths of despair, they can create. On days filled with the heights of joy, they can create.

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Where do starfish come from?” asked Sam.“From the sky,” answered Stella. “Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea.”“Weren’t the stars afraid of drowning?” asked Sam.“No,” said Stella. “They all learned how to swim.

Whenever new knowledge causes you to question your previous assumptions, the stage is set for creative transformation.

Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.

Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements.

Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.

To procure solutions that will marvel you and the world, just think outside the box.

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symbolic defenses mechanism to shield themselves from knowledge of their impermanence. Every person possesses autonomy of the will, the ability to choose how to conduct their life. The freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless; it provides a person with no sense of meaning and supplies no purpose to life because a mere collection of objects will not transcend their physical demise. An artist does not deny their impermanence but embraces the prospect of their death by laboring to create a monument of their existence that will survive their expiry.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Sir Ken Robinson’s 2008 talk on educational reform—entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”—has now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children’s scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they grow older and advance through the educational system. He concludes that children start out as curious, creative individuals but are made duller by factory-style schools that spend too much time teaching children academic facts and not enough helping them express themselves. Sir Ken clearly cares greatly about the well-being of children, and he is a superb storyteller, but his arguments about creativity, though beguilingly made, are almost entirely baseless.

Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.

REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy and his followers do the same. Be watchful and keep that in mind.

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.

The SECRET to unravelling Life's MYSTERIES is thinking.

The artistic life is a long and lovely suicide precisely because it involves the negation of self; as Highsmith imagined herself as her characters, so Ripley takes on the personae of others and in doing so metamorphoses himself into a 'living' work of art. A return to the 'real life' after a period of creativity resulted in a fall in spirits, an agony Highsmith felt acutely. She voiced this pain in the novel via Bernard's quotation of an excerpt from Derwatt's notebook: 'There is no depression for the artist except that caused by a return to the self'.

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole.

Creativity is leading the life king-size, despite you being a pauper!

I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.

If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Relaxation is the beginning of creativity.

The beginning of wisdom, I believe, is our ability to accept an inherent messiness in our explanation of what's going on. Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels. Ludwig Wittgenstein had the idea that philosophy should be what he called "true enough." I think that's a great idea. True enough is as true as can be gotten. The imagination is chaos. New forms are fetched out of it. The creative act is to let down the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended and then to attempt to bring out of it ideas.

It’s a struggle for me to remain open," she admits. "To not shut down because I’m defensive or scared or maybe my ego is getting in the way. And the other side of that is just believing that I belong where I am and deserve to take up space. I fight constantly between those two things, between not apologizing for what I want and staying vulnerable and creatively supple and not thinking I know better than everyone else.

Great souls, Great stories.

The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has "Less excuses, more results. Less distraction, more focus. Less me, more we. Live with "Gratitude" not with "Greytitude