Creativity Quotes
“Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of
imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.”
Robert Toth
“There is no doubt that
creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity,
there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same
patterns.”
Edward de Bono
“I try more and more to be
myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“When I am, as it were,
completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say, travelling in a
carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep;
it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.”
Mozart
“TV
is chewing gum for the eyes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“There is no use trying,” said
Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much
practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an
hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll
“Daring ideas are like
chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
Goethe
“Creativity often consists of
merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes
were thought up only a little more than a century ago?”
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
“I
can’t understand why people
are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
John Cage
“The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner
necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
Carl Jung
“The reluctance to put away
childish things may be a requirement of genius.”
Rebecca Sinkler
“I like nonsense, it wakes up
the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of
looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and
that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”
Dr. Seuss
“The Possible’s slow fuse is
lit by the Imagination.” Emily Dickinson
“I like vending
machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the
store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor
potential.” Mitch Hedberg
“A fool-proof method for
sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away
everything that doesn’t look like an elephant.”
Unknown
“When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don’t state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.”
Lewis Carroll
“They who dream by day are
cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“If my poetry aims to achieve
anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and
feel.” Jim
Morrison
“Above all, we are coming to
understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the
creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and
objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of
art.” J.
F. K.
“Don’t think. Thinking is the
enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy.
You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things.”
Ray Bradbury
“The sorcery and charm of
imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world
into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all
human capacities.”
Frank Barron
"I saw a guy at a
party wearing a leather jacket and I thought, 'That is cool'. But then I saw
another guy wearing a leather vest and I thought, 'That is not cool'. Then I
figured it out: Cool is all about leather sleeves."
Demetri Martin
“What is now proved was once
only imagined.”
William Blake
“Creativity can be described
as letting go of certainties.”
Gail Sheehy
“During those rare moments of
creativeness, when an ordinary person has something in common with the making of
the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence, of moving beyond his daily
life. What could be a greater reward?”
Joseph Zinker
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing
star." Nietzsche
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw
"I like birthdays. Every time someone is born,
that's just like bringing more cake into the world."
Demetri Martin
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
Albert Einstein
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is
the people that call others weird that are weird." Paul
McCartney
"I wrapped my
Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I
used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote
'Jesus' on it." Demetri Martin
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