top of page
.png){kind=small}
Creativity Quotes
"Poetry, if it is not to be a lifeless repetition of forms, must be constantly exploring "the frontiers of the spirit." But these frontiers are not like the surveys of geographical explorers, conquered once for all and settled. The frontiers of the spirit are more like the jungle which, unless continuously kept under control, is always ready to encroach and eventually obliterate the cultivated area."
1
"For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope."
1
"Positive Thinking and creativity are the powerful pairs to push the world forward."
1
"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."
1
"The writer must write what he has to say not speak it."
1
"It feels good read but greater to write."
1
"Dreamers do not believe in power, they believe in imagination the source of creativity."
1
"If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don't judge your creation. Just create it. Banish doubt and fear and step out of your own way if you have to. Write if you're a writer and invent if you're an inventor. Do what you were born to do. Only then will you know a remarkable life."
1
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
1
"If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself."
1
"99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters."
1
"The magic of reading happens when an author's written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently-perhaps dwelt in for years."
1
"Never durst a poet touch a pen to writeUntil his ink was tempered with love's sighs."
1
"The light of artistic creation is also blinding.The artist can't see the suffering he causesto those around him. And the'll neverunderstand the purity of his goal, how the heatof his invention won't melt the ice in his heart.He must be ruthless!No religion, no purpose except this:Make something perfect before you die.Life is short, art is for all time."
1
"Creativity is fluid, like the fountainhead from within you, flowing out."
1
"Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore."
1
"If you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while..."
1
"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."
1
"At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment."
1
"I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity."
1
"You can either be creative or competitive, but not both."
1
"We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out."
1
"The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself."
1
"An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it."
1
"If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles."
1
"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."
1
"I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do."
1
"A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls."
1
"Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice."
1
"I write small poems- the kind that fit on a postcard, and still can break your heart."
1
"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self-never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."
1
"Imagination takes us to the invisible world."
1
"Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, MAESTRODI COLOR CHE SANNO. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see."
1
"The most beautiful word in the dictionary is IMAGINATION."
1
"It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write."
1
"While the individual contributions provide the "building block of creativity, it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting."
1
"A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience."
1
"You ought to write down the glow of thoughts as it's ignites."
1
"Whenever I encounter writer's block, I stop writing - with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs."
1
"Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance."
1
"Writers, Esther said simply. "For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it builds up and then you do all sorts of weird things. Mumble to yourself. Nightmares. Daydreams. Total anarchy and chaos. Before you know it, the writer is either sitting in a corner feverishly humming to his- or herself or on Prozac."
1
"Imagination is phenomenal."
1
"Short stories are great start, but if they are true that's the best start so far in about 222 short stories I have viewed and I have already shared them in the book series Reddit Collection."
1
"Conciseness is the sister of talent."
1
"Delight yourself with imagination and artistry and be inspired by life's beauty."
1
"A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts."
1
"Art is a language which everyone understands in their own way."
1
"The imagination of a boy is healthy and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in ferment the character undecided the way of life uncertain."
1
"Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know."
1
"The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs."
1
bottom of page