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The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing
—  that it is a natural outcome of a state of being
Life wants you to thrive in the domain of your own unique creative vision for your yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Creativity flourishes where there is freedom.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.
— Blaise Pascal, The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent
Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the heights? That's something you don't understand, and can't understand until you've gone through it yourself. You're still at the state of unlimited illusions, when a good, strong pair of legs makes the hardest road look short, and you've such a mighty appetite for glory that the tiniest crumb of success tastes delightfully sweet. You're prepared for a feast, you're going to satisfy your ambition at last, you feel it's within reach and you don't care if you give the skin off your back to get it! And then, the heights are scaled, the summits reached, and you've got to stay there. That's when the torture begins; you've drunk your excitement to the dregs and found it all too short and even rather bitter, and you wonder whether it was really worth the struggle. From that point there is no more unknown to explore, no new sensations to experience. Pride has had its brief portion of celebrity; you know that your best has been given and you're surprised it hasn't brought a keener sense of satisfaction. From that moment the horizon starts to empty of all hopes that once attracted you towards it. There's nothing to look forward to but death. But in spite of that you cling on, you don't want to feel you're played out, you persist in trying to produce something, like old men persist in trying to make love, with painful, humiliating results. ... If only we could have the courage to hang ourselves in front of our last masterpiece!
— Émile Zola, The Masterpiece
Choose to not worry at all, freeing your creative mind and spirit to solve your problems.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought
— Michel Leiris, Brisees
I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what I thought it was. It doesn’t make you special and sparkly. You don’t have to walk alone. You can work in an office — I’ve worked in offices for the past 15 years and written five novels while doing it. The creative life is forgiving: You can betray it all you want, again and again, and no matter how many times you do, it will always take you back.
— Lev Grossman
The master creators are masters of love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.
— Austin Kleon
Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in some way or another, whether it’s photography or writing or just walking through the world.
— Alejandro Escovedo
Be aware of negativity but do not let it take root in the sinews of your creative spirit.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.
— Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.
— Eric Maisel, The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression
We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order to make our own deficiencies seem more excusable. For when we tell ourselves that masterful abilities are simply unexplainable, we're also comforting ourselves by saying that those superheroes come endowed with all the qualities we don't possess. Our failures are therefore no fault of our own, nor are those heroes' virtues to their credit, either. If it isn't learned, it isn't earned.When we actually meet the heroes whom our culture views as great, we don't find any singular propensities––only combinations of ingredients quite common in themselves. Most of these heroes are intensely motivated, but so are many other people. They're usually very proficient in some field--but in itself we simply call this craftmanship or expertise. They often have enough self-confidence to stand up to the scorn of peers--but in itself, we might just call that stubbornness. They surely think of things in some novel ways, but so does everyone from time to time. And as for what we call "intelligence", my view is that each person who can speak coherently already has the better part of what our heroes have. Then what makes genius appear to stand apart, if we each have most of what it takes?I suspect that genius needs one thing more: in order to accumulate outstanding qualities, one needs unusually effective ways to learn. It's not enough to learn a lot; one also has to manage what one learns. Those masters have, beneath the surface of their mastery, some special knacks of "higher-order" expertise, which help them organize and apply the things they learn. It is those hidden tricks of mental management that produce the systems that create those works of genius. Why do certain people learn so many more and better skills? These all-important differences could begin with early accidents. One child works out clever ways to arrange some blocks in rows and stacks; a second child plays at rearranging how it thinks. Everyone can praise the first child's castles and towers, but no one can see what the second child has done, and one may even get the false impression of a lack of industry. But if the second child persists in seeking better ways to learn, this can lead to silent growth in which some better ways to learn may lead to better ways to learn to learn. Then, later, we'll observe an awesome, qualitative change, with no apparent cause--and give to it some empty name like talent, aptitude, or gift.
— Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.
— Abiola Abrams, The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love
The creative act is not pure.
— Nadine Gordimer, The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.[check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you.
— James A. Owen, Drawing Out the Dragons: A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice
Jack Kerouac died after throwing up blood. The malt liquor. Then that other guy who shot his wife in the head. Burroughs somebody. And I wonder about literary figures. They're all drunk and staggering and haunting people today, I bet, still muttering and ranting in disassociated lines.Or, I'm wondering about a middle ground with wooly blankets and nubbly cardigans and nobody shot in the head. Where yes, you are uniquely mad. But functionally uniquely mad. Endlessly absorbed but in the mildly scattered kind of way instead of in the crap-I-shot-my-wife-in-the-head kind of way. Unable to dedicate to another human being only in occasional fits.Roald Dahl says you're a fool to become a writer, your only compensation being absolute freedom but then I'm not so sure about that. He bought a wagon from a Romanian gypsy and his kids played in it and I think he had more in the way of compensation than absolute freedom. He's got a point, though, even if he reached a point where his own point no longer applied to him. He had no master except his own soul, and that, he was sure, was why he did it.
— Kate Inglis
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
— Gene Fowler
The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.
— Eric Maisel, The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression
Sylvia would have taken it seriously- so strong was her devotion to the innate intelligence of form. Those pretty tools like glue and pens, pasting together look-books – for Sylvia it would have been like toy making or arranging jewels. Unfortunately, Sylvia’s flair for design and graphics went unnoticed by the Mademoiselle staff, who had already pigeonholed her as a “writer”.
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm of the unexpected creation is hidden.
— Anna Jae
If you’re struggling to “think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?
— Ryan Lilly
Everything you wish to "create" is already there, waiting for you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The operation would be in a week...I didn't know if I would survive. How I longed to go back to reading! There was nowhere I longed to be more than the university campus. I was preparing for a master's on fantasy literature. I was interested in why the country's literature did not include this distinctive genre. I had this great passion for studying and writing, which they explained in my household with the story of the umbilical cord. When I was born, and at my father's request, my elder sister buried my umbilical cord in the courtyard of her primary school. My father attributed my {brother's} academic failure to the fact that my mother buried his umbilical cord in the garden of our house.
— Hassan Blasim, The Iraqi Christ
Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.
— Rosemarie Osmun
Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serve us because they contribute to understanding.
— Nichole Beamer
My words shouldn’t be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.
— Amy Layne Litzelman
There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You don't lead a story. You follow it.
— Kate Inglis
You don't create or write to be successful
—  you don't create or paint to be famous or to increase your wealth. You do all of these things because your soul is calling you to do them.
It's easy to want to be an author. You see it in your mind with sun streaming through windows and a Siamese cat purring on an antique rug and a little pellet stove and somehow the bills are paid and there's wit and self-sufficiency and divine inspiration seeping through walls and pores. And then, in your mind, you skip ahead to a book launch party and more Siamese cats.When you graduate from wanting to working, you say, "I am going to flesh out this idea and write the whole thing down, and rewrite it, and rewrite it again, and rewrite it unendingly, and I'll have no real assurance of when it'll be good enough, but at some point I'll pitch it to someone who will decide if I'm delusional or not." The optimism and the ego-bruising, unsexy work needed to follow through feels unending.
— Kate Inglis
Great depth of beingness and creativity often come with great woundedness.
— Kathryn V. White
When you've got creative momentum, the last thing you want to do is stop. I'd write and write and wake up with my head slumped over and my fingers still on the keyboard and the last sentence trailing off like eeeeeejjjjjjjjjjjjj . . . Then I'd finally crawl to bed. Mornings were rough, but I got used to it. It was invigorating to write a couple thousand words while the rest of the world was asleep. More invigorating than rest.
— Kate Inglis
Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston pickle and melted gouda.I read it out loud to the kids. I stick it to the fridge with the others. Some writers do that because it turns their crank to have a Wall of Publishers Who Passed And Will Someday Regret It. I don't. Each one is, really and truly, a gift. We look at them and the boys and I talk about rejection, all kinds of it. Creative, karmic, romantic. Nothing works out until something does.
— Kate Inglis
I always believe that ideas are like shooting stars when you have one make it happen and not just wish.
— Roberto Llamas
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.
— Colin Wilson
When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.
— Flannery O'Connor, A Prayer Journal
The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.
— William S. Burroughs
When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.
— Onyi Anyado
If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?
— Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Discovering Distilled Creativity"Amazing how sitting down to listen with no distractions - no tv, no devices, no radio - can enhance your life; the sigh of the wind the only ambient noise. Then, in that still moment, your distilled creativity comes because you feel so connected to the Universe.
— Sandra Sealy
Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!
— Paul Gauguin, The Writings of a Savage
During my 20’s and 30’s at some point I started to think, “I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people: don’t even bother thinking that you’re going to give up whatever your art or your creative thing is. It’s always there for you.
— Alice Bag
In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...
— Susi Moore
Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.
— Joy Fielding, Mad River Road
The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.
— Stephanie Lennox, The Authorship Program
Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one’s origins, it is the dance of the eternal return… and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.
— Billy Marshall Stoneking
Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.
— David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created
Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key.
— Lara Biyuts, Silver Thread Spinner
... misfortune and creativity go together.
— Cirilo F. Bautista, The House of True Desire: Essays on Life and Literature
I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Creation
Originality of mind untainted,And enthusiasm for life, unlimited.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They have voracious appetites.
— David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created
What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is the really free man. He is free to have imagination.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning to our lives,' he [Jim] said later. 'This is not merely an obligation, it's something we must do because we love doing it.
— Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography
Creativity follows uncertainty
— Alex Munoz
Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.
— Gail Sheehy
there is no healthier drug than creativity.
— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone.The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,they happen in our lives like car crashes,books that change us, neighborhoodswe move into and come to love.Tristan and Isolde is scarcely the story,women at least should know the differencebetween love and death. No poison cup,no penance. Merely a notion that the tape-recordershould have caught some ghost of us: that tape-recordernot merely played but should have listened to us,and could instruct those after us:this we were, this is how we tried to love,and these are the forces they had ranged against us,and these are the forces we had ranged within us,within us and against us, against us and within us.
— Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
— Miles Davis
Constraint inspires creativity
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Wonderful things are possible when you dream big and use your imagination.
— Cat Michaels, Sweet T and the North Wind
True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.
— Douglas Haddow, Adbusters #84 Pop Nihilism
The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself.
— Pat Conroy, My Reading Life
Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
So for me the creative world isn’t what you do after your day job, though many professional musicians do this to make ends meet, but it’s something that IS a job. Perhaps that’s why I’m not as disheartened by the more cold blooded aspects of the industry. Over the course of watching my mother navigate the creative world I’ve seen just about every trick pulled that could have been and I’ve seen her deposit the checks received for a job well done. When I recently asked her why she chose the creative world she said: “Early on I decided that if I had to work I was going to work at something that I loved.”I’m glad she did. As difficult, chaotic, dysfunctional and crazy as the world in music and the arts can be I always knew that they mattered deeply to her, as they do to me.
— Jamie Freveletti
Out of suffering comes creativity
— Kristine Atkinson, Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason
And so it was that Michael built a brown castle on the peak of his mountain, Gabriel built a golden pyramid in the midst of his plain, saying it was both a holy temple in my praise and an edifice that would guide him on his pattern for his future work, though I knew that only he would ever understand it, to my amusement, and Raphael built a silver palace to sparkle above the trees of his forests, as his home and celestial workshop, and I was well pleased with their work, as ever it was better than what I had hoped for. "That was the First Age, the Archangel Age, long over. I can speak in much detail about each stage in my creation, and my scribes have written all my words on each stage in the books I gave to the angel courts, for study and meditation and for prayer, but such details are for my sons and daughters most interested in them, when they are of an age, with the understanding, to comprehend such things.
— Philip   Dodd, Angel War
Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
Without creativity you are nothing.
— Kendric Boykin
Keep it weird. They'll get it later.
— Kid Koala aka Eric San
We can imagine how to create and be creative on a beach in a cosmic sky. No grain of sand is merely just sandy
—  with imagination at hand the sand can become whatever you fancy.
People ask me how to start writing. I tell them that 'Creating Creates Creativity'. Put your notes and outline aside. Start with one anecdote or conversation, and that will lead to another and another. It's the steps, the path, not the final destination that drives the process or writing.
— Dick Sederquist, Inside and Outside: Messages of Hope from a Life Long Hiker and Depression Survivor
You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,
— michael p naughton
Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom
— Jennifer Sodini
There are no rules to creativity.
— Laura Jaworski
Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.
— Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.
— Shannon L. Alder
Everybody says they want artists to make money and then when they do, everybody hates them for it. The word sellout is spit out by the bitterest, smallest parts of ourselves. Don't be one of those horrible fans who stops listening to your favorite band just because they have a hit single. Don't write off your friends because they've had a little bit of success. Don't be jealous when the people you like do well - celebrate their victory as if it's your own.
— Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.
— Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Anyone can spin a victory, it's a total loss that demands creativity
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.
— Initially NO, Wolfing It Down
Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you're not an 'aspiring' photographer, you're not an 'amazing' photographer either. You're a photographer. Don't get cute. Don't brag. Just state the facts.
— Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Take this drink as a token ofmy disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.
— Initially NO, Wolfing It Down
To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.
— Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything, our observation opens the windows of knowledge around us.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
We must all cultivate our own creativity because we each have a God-given imagination that has the ability to bless generations and eternity.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
All change begins with someone having a thought.
— Paul Morley, The North
We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...
— Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.
— Nora Roberts, The Collector
My mind is the pendant, creativity is the chain
— Helen M. Ingram
Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.
— Nadine C. Keels
We all are creative by nature, but our creativity gets buried deep under the pressure of our day to day mad rush.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have while, day in and day out, word by word and line by line, constructing a fictitious autobiography for myself in these pages.
— Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
Every organisation faces challenges, but few seize to perform, not due to any shortage of funds, technology or knowledge, but due to the fact that people in such organisations do not use their creativity to explore innovative solution for their challenges.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
Nature grows where the atmosphere is conducive – a bit of oxygen, soil, moisture and we see plants growing. Even between the stones. Exactly the same way, if we are happy and honest to ourselves, our creative glands gets activated and soon we get the astonishing solution to our challenges.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.
— Gail Z. Martin
At times we fail to find solution for our challenges, but those solutions are very much around us. Our creativity can help us reach those solutions.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
Creativity is the elixir of life.
— Phillip Gary Smith, Ultra Superior
Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer, for the very act of opening His Mouth is Movement, indeed the greatest Act of all, for it is the Word. And this is precisely why He has made an infinity of lesser gods, creating them in His own image, so that we can do the lesser things on His behalf. We are His hands and arms and feet and mouths. We are His answers to your prayers, enacted along the great Framework of Being.
— Vera Nazarian, Cobweb Forest
So the key is doing something that sets you apart forever in the minds of regular people.Something that matters.
— Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Don't be afraid of silly ideas.
— Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him.
— Henry Miller, Black Spring
The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.
— Richard Powers, Orfeo
As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.
— Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure
YOU DON’T KNOW IF YOUR IDEA IS ANY GOOD the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings isnot as easy as the optimists say it is. There’s a reason why feelings scare us—because what they tell us and what the rest of the world tells us are often two different things.
— Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Creativity is in the heart of the dreamer.
— Tammy L. Kubasko, My Gift to You: The Comfort Zone
The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own.
— Lewis Hyde "The Gift"
Don't Stop Searching Until You Find Creative & Gainful Unemployment
— Dean Cavanagh
Hobbies are like flowers on plant. They make the plant look beautiful and feel Proud.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.
— Steven Kotler
Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.
— Ashim Shanker, Sinew of the Social Species
And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cogwheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them. All the energy of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves....On the other hand, if you will make a man of the working creature, you cannot make a tool. Let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to do anything worth doing; and the engine-turned precision is lost at once. Out come all his roughness; all his dullness, all his incapability; shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause: but out comes the whole majesty of him also, and we know the height of it only, when we see the clouds settling upon him.
— John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
For certain you can be helped, should you accept it. But as far as being made...no one can do that. This occurred on the day you were born. An earth day is not a birth day. Own what you create as well as what you break.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.
— Dan Sanders, The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest
Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.
— Curtis Bill Pepper, Leonardo: A Biographical Novel
Our actions are highly magnetic to our thoughts.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.
— William Zinsser
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me that the moon behind a certain cloud formation looked very like a painkiller dissolving in a glass of water. I didn’t work toward that simile, it was simply there: I was mugged, as it were, by the similarity between these two very different things. Literary composition can be a similar process. The writer’s real world and the writer’s fictional world are compared, and these comparisons turned into text. But other times literary composition can be a plain old slog, and nothing to do with zones or inspiration. It’s world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.
— David Mitchell
To be creative is to look Madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest.
— River Fairchild
Daemons had minds of their own, which could never be harnessed, even by those who sheltered them.
— Curtis Bill Pepper, Leonardo: A Biographical Novel
My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
— Gabriel Fielding
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Play is just another version of work
— Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face could be born.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
— Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.
— Shawn Lukas
I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.
— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.
— Kim John Payne, Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
— William Howard Taft
Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can't always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create this new thing- this painting, this story, this song. If you break art down to its base elements, there's nothing miraculous about the letters of the alphabet or a drop of paint. But an artist can put those elements together to create something powerful, something that moves us and withstands the test of time. A work that no one but that artist could have imagined, let alone created.
— Sarah Cross, Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.
— Ron Brackin
Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous.
— Lloyd Alexander
The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.
— Shawn Lukas
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible.
— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.
— Gloria Ng
It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.
— Jan Kaplicky
Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing safe. If you hesitate you are restraining your creativity. Some will appreciate your creative work and others will not. Just be free in expressing the creative you!
— Alison Blackmore
For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.
— Peter Medawar, The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice: And Other Classic Essays on Science
Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Practicing art is a meditation
—  an artwork is an insight.
Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?
— Shelley K. Wall
An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.
— Doug   Cooper
Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.
— Aaron Swartz
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in Eng
— Glen Cook
Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When i produce from this place of truth, the results transform both creator and beholder.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.
— Shaun Hick
Gratitude is a way of creativity.
— Apollo Matrix, America: Be a Better American
From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes. But in reality, this solitary sanctuary i inhabit, allows my artistic nature to sing at the top of its lungs. My feelings have the space they need to breathe. And my art can gain the momentum, it requires, to bubble up to the surface of consciousness. For me, creativity is a chaotic and quiet hybrid, an entity that seeks a safe place to call home.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a conviction—which is naive and misplaced—that being published has to do with being “good” while not being published has to do with being “amateur.” ...“Did you write today?”“Yes.”“Then you’re a writer today.”It would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It’s not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final “credit” must come from.
— Julia Cameron, The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy.
— Amit Kalantri
Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.
— Alan G. Robinson, The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than owning material things. I also see art as something people will do rather than consume, and do it as a natural part of their lives; creative endeavors are a form of profound spiritual satisfaction.
— Theodore Roszak
Creativity is a gift each one of us is born with, irrespective of our backgrounds and entitlement of culture, The challenge is to hold onto this gift as we go through life. To nurture it. To encourage it. Because every single day we encounter forces that would rather it went away.
An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.
— Onyi Anyado
Good" now is better than "Best" never.
— Phillip Gary Smith, HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
Mistress Creation keeps calling my name... i long for her, and she, for me... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon
— Jaeda DeWalt
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.
— Fritz Haber
One of the most connective things we can do for ourselves, is to become world travelers of our own internal landscapes. What i love about creating art, is the excitement of turning that landscape inside out for all to see. And the kind of courage that takes, when i don't know what the outcome will be...
— Jaeda DeWalt
If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, you should do regularly, whether it’s waking up at midnight and drinking vodka or waking up at dawn and drinking tea, whether it’s sitting in a monkish study or writing on the back of a flatbed truck. The analogy I like is children’s literature: in a lot of children’s books, there’s a huge institutional structure (Hogwarts, for example) whose presiding safety allows the children’s imagination to run free. The more consistent your habits are – and this ties into having your tools nailed down – the more secure your brain will be to run free and create.
— Charles Finch
That's it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations..Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, The Magnificent Weight Loss System
It is in everyone's interest that every person's creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.
— Efiong Etuk, Great Insights on Human Creativity: Transforming the Way We Live, Work, Educate, Lead, and Relate
Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).
— J.M. Varner
Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told.
— Rick Julian
Life of scarcity teaches creativity.
— Jag Randhawa
Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.
— Gerard Puccio
When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.
— Anthony Storr, Solitude: A Return to the Self
It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.
— Jim Morrison, The Lords and the New Creatures
Because the essence of creativity is fucking around
—  art is that which is done for the hell of it.
One reason that people have artist’s block is that they do not respect the law of dormancy in nature. Trees don’t produce fruit all year long, constantly. They have a point where they go dormant. And when you are in a dormant period creatively, if you can arrange your life to do the technical tasks that don’t take creativity, you are essentially preparing for the spring when it will all blossom again.
— Marshall Vandruff
It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish...
— Kat Von D., Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing
Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The show must go on, and so must The Book.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off.
— John Irving, A Widow for One Year
The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution
— Albert Einstein
Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience.... If there are enough zombies recruited into our world, I worry about the potential for a self-fulfilling prophecy. Maybe if people pretend they are not conscious or do not have free will - or that the cloud of online people is a person; if they pretend there is nothing special about the perspective of the individual - then perhaps we have the power to make it so. We might be able to collectively achieve antimagic. Humans are free. We can commmit suicide for the benefit of a Singularity. We can engineer our genes to better support an imaginary hive mind. We can make culture and journalism into second-rate activities and spend centuries remixing the detritus of the 1960s and other eras from before individual creativity went out of fashion. Or we can believe in ourselves. By chance, it might turn out we are real.
— Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget