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In 1829 Rossini was at an age which has often proven critical in the lives of musicians, painters and writers. Lapses into silence far more complete than Rossini's, creative failures, suicides, and unanticipated deaths have been common in the middle to late 30s. As Charles Rosen has noted, 'It is the age when the most fluent composer begins to lose the ease of inspiration he once possessed, when even Mozart had to make sketches and to revise'.
— Richard Osborne, Rossini
My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be
— Vicki Alayne Bradley, Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World
Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom
—  in freedom alone can there be creativeness.
The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.
— Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature
How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from hiscreation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives…. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Does anyone ask a painter -- even the painter himself -- why he paints? Now me, I painted... used to... whatever I saw that was beautiful. It had to be beautiful to me, through and through, before I would paint it. And I used to be a pretty simple fellow, and found many completely beautiful things to paint.But the older you get the fewer completely beautiful things you see. Every flower has a brown spot somewhere, and a hippogriff has evil laughter. So at some point in his development an artist has to paint, not what he sees (which is what I've always done) but the beauty in what he sees. Most painters, I think, cross this line early; I'm crossing it late.("To Here and the Easel", 1954)
— Theodore Sturgeon, Sturgeon is Alive and Well
You’ve heard poets talk about, poems flowing out of their bodies; painters, they get on a roll. You all have seen the musician, when they are in that state, the guitar, the piano, whatever instrument just becomes part of their body, their ego is completely gone and it is just their connection to the art, their connection to the emotions they are trying to share with the audience- that is pure flow.
— Chase Jarvis
People who aren’t in that space will be like ‘So how was your trip?’ and you don’t even go into it. ‘I guess it was pretty good.’ And then you talk to other people who have been there and they know exactly why your eyes are glazed over.
— Jimmy Chin
Seeing God is all about getting in touch with reality. If you want to photograph God, focus your lens on Hamakom, The Place, anyplace where you see divine light illuminating reality. Let your camera collect the light reflecting from the reality shaping your everyday life and you will find yourself photographing God in action." (From the Introduction to the book Photograph God)
— Mel Alexenberg, Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life
I found myself tumbling down a 2000-foot face and my senses were so reduced. I couldn’t hear anything. It was totally peaceful. I was totally calm.
— Travis Rice
Live, Breathe, Connect, Create!
— Michele Jennae
Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.
— Beth Turner
Sexual role-play is the enactment of a highly imaginative and erotic psychodrama where the individual is given creative license to express the polar opposite qualities of their multifaceted personality
—  bringing a profound sense of psychological release and rejuvenation to those involved.
After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid.
— Steven Kotler, Dean Potter
Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014
— Jenna Cornell
If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.
— Tawny Lara
Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.
— Jennifer Sodini
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
— Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual
poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.
— Sanober  Khan
Selfish DreamscapesIf you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them... gossiping about everybody else's dream but their own.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
creativity is our only weapon against entropy
— Dean Cavanagh
The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for.
— Vernor Vinge
Asbjørn had a nose, that was his great talent, I had never met anyone with such sureness of taste as him, but what use was it, part from being the hub student life revolved around? The essence of a nose is judgment, to judge you have to stand outside, and that is not where creativity takes place.
— Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle: Book 1
Appreciate the creation, respect the creator of it, and admire the source of all creativity.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
No matter how high you climb, there will always be a room for you to turn your creativity and productivity up some notches.
We are all creative, from the mother adding an extra pinch of garlic to her meal, to the entrepreneur launching a brand new product, to the business consultant who creates a more effective way for corporate departments to communicate. The call requires creativity.
— Shannon Tanner, Worthy: The POWER of Wholeness
Berg paid his way with stories.
— Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
All creativity is a work in progress
— Dean Cavanagh
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
— Magritte
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas.
— Edward deBono
She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.
— Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum
How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.
— Jeremy Camp, I Still Believe
People like you must create. If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.
— Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.
— Carla H. Krueger
The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
Entrepreneurship isn't about luck, it's about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.
— Onyi Anyado
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
— Joseph Addison
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
Entrepreneur, take a bite out of Apple's innovation so in turn you can bear fruits of creativity.
— Onyi Anyado
Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...
— Max McKeown
He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.
— Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens
The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.The Language of Soul
— Harold Klemp
Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you.
— Laura Ruby
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.
— Kenneth Rexroth
We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold galaxies that breech the very edges of the universe itself. Such are the privileges we enjoy because of God’s unimaginable imagination.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.
— Max McKeown, The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
Walking’s a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.
— Kenneth Eade, HOA Wire
Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.
— David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created
Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.
— Michelle C. Hillstrom
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
— Richard Ford
We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.
— Criss Jami, Healology
In creating the only hard thing's to begin
— James Russell Lowell
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.
— Richard Florida
Creativity can impact some sort of "CHANGE" in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure "DIFFERENCES" and work together for a common cause.
— Henry Johnson Jr
If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.
— Abraham H. Maslow
Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn’t made TUSK? If I’d let it die as a podcast? I wouldn’t have three other movies I’m now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.
— Kevin Smith
Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking – and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.
— Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.
— Onyi Anyado
Inspiration is everywhere.
— Charlotte Eriksson
The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.
— Pablo Neruda
The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.
— Michelangelo
The best way to be unique and set ourselves apart from Society is to create. Use your imagination and apply action towards it.
— Matthew Donnelly
Don't hold it, shouldn't stop it. Let it come, let it flow. Let it reach the positivity, bring the happiness
— Dessy Dinata
Stern observes that unformulated experience is not only a source of defense, but also a source of creativity. We must allow the unformulated to organize itself.
— Elizabeth F. Howell, The Dissociative Mind
The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new genre based on a mixing of others. The potential for modern-day muses is as vast as individual creativity.
— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, CELLOGIRLS: Identity and Transformation in 2CELLOS Fan Culture
And being different? That turned out to the best part of all. I found that with a little creativity, and a lot of dedication, any difference can be turned into something amazing. Our differences are our superpowers.
— Cece Bell, El Deafo
One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Maya Angelou said, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." I'm proud that Mike Schur and I rejected the idea that creativity needs to come from chaos. I like how we ran our writers' room and our set. People had a great time when they came to work on our show and that mattered to us. I like to think the spirit we had on set found its way onto the show.
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.
— Ryan Lilly
Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.
— Amit Kalantri
No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
— Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion
A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revered as a sign of vigor in our make-up. But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as beings. Denied nature’s exemption from creativity, we are indentured servants of the imaginary until the hour of our death, when the final harassments of imagination will beset us.
— Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Do you know what the imagination is, Susan?"The child nodded sagely. "That's when you see things that aren't really there.""Well, not exactly," said Kris with a smile. "No -- to me the imagination is a place all by itself. A very wonderful country. You've heard of the British Nation and the French Nation?"Susan nodded again."Well, this is the Imagination. And once you get there you can do almost anything you want.
— Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street
And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers
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.
— Ian Leslie
The world is a wonderous train stop on your soul's journey. You will not be here for long so enjoy as much as you can. There is peace in the smallest moments if you stop long enough to breathe them in.
— Monika Zands
Creativity is applied Imagination
— Matthew Donnelly
(As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.
— Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Creativity is more important than imagination because it requires action.
— Matthew Donnelly
Living a life full of wonder provides for a wonderful life.
— Monika Zands
Oftentimes at Yale, I'll be sitting around studying or drinking or hanging out when I'll hear one of my friends talk about a project they're doing for a class or a rally they're organizing or a play they're putting on. And I'll just think, really, honestly, how remarkably privileged we are to hang around with such a talented group of people around here. I am constantly reminded of the immense passion and creativity of those with whom I get to spend time every day.
— Marina Keegan
What good is having an imagination if you don't use it?
— Miss Lore
When you being to awaken to your gifts, a first it can be alarming for the soul to reveal its truth. After some consideration and healthy boundaries the soul mellows and the action and revelation begins. Hold onto your seat, you are in for a wonderful wild ride.
— Monika Zands
The best things in life are the things you do by mistake.
— Monika Zands
I used to give advice, and no one wanted it. Now I give suggestions and everyone asks for more.
— Monika Zands
Wake up, it's your time to shine. You are the gift the world is waiting for. Stop being so selfish by hiding it. How much longer do we have to wait for your magnificence to shine light on our darkness?
— Monika Zands
My motto for creat
— Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
We can build anything in our imagination that's where all creation begins in your life
— Bob Proctor
It is the people who innovate that inspire, and innovation is not born of the status quo.
— Michele Jennae
Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis
— Andrew McAfee
All of our days are numbered; we cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame great things can be constructed around it that are massive and powerful and world changing – all held up by the tinniest of ideas.
— Nick Cave
Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's all just clamor and confusion. It only becomes a story when we tell it and retell it. Our small precious recollections that we speak again and again to ourselves and to others, first creating the narrative of our lives and then keeping the story from dissolving into darkness.
— Nick Cave
Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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.
— Rupert Sheldrake
You have more brain cells than there are grains of sand on your favorite beach, and you have cleverness, dexterity, and creativity—all of which powerfully combine when you are at risk—if you listen to your intuition
— Gavin de Becker
Don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished.
— Onyi Anyado
Everybody starts small. We all begin life as a single cell. Every business starts as one person with an idea. How fast you go, how far you get, is in your hands. The bigger your vision, the bigger your achievement will be. Will you stumble on the way? Perhaps, but we cannot let fear keep us small. We have to be brave to be big.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
— Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
If we know that the inevitable setbacks and frustrations are phases of the natural cycle of creative processes, if we know that our obstacles can become our ornaments, we can persevere and bring our desires to fruition. Such perseverance can be a real test, but there are ways through, there are guideposts. And the struggle, which is guaranteed to take a lifetime, is worth it. It is a struggle that generates incredible pleasure and joy. Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on Earth
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
impossibility exist only in the weak minds
— Hassan Choughari
Here’s how I learned to improvise: I played some music in the studio and I started to move. It sounds obvious, but I wonder how many people, whatever their medium, appreciate the gift of improvisation. It’s your one opportunity in life to be completely free, with no responsibilities and no consequences. You don’t have to be good or even interesting. It’s you alone, with no one watching or judging. If anything comes of it, you decide whether the world gets to see it. In essence, you are giving yourself permission to daydream during working hours.
— Twyla Tharp
I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.
— Clive Barker
My friends think I'm outgoing, but I don't travel as much outside as I do from the inside.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
Doing better is creativity,doing faster is creativity,doing smarter is creativity,doing right is creativity.doing Exclusive is creating identity.
— Mohit Manke
If you can bring yourself to apply your imagination to finding the possible favorable outcomes of undesired developments, even if only as an exercise, you'll see that it fosters creativity. This suggestion is much more than a way to find the silver lining our grandmothers encouraged us to look for. I include it in this book because creativity is linked to intuition, and intuition is the way out of the most serious challenges you might face. Albert Einstein said that when you follow intuition, The solutions come to you, and you don’t know how or why.
— Gavin de Becker
Creativity is different than cleverness. Clever things are often fun, but usually shallow and short lived. Creativity is deeper.
— Ted  Keller, Watercolor: One Person's Teachings on Watercolor Painting and Becoming an Artist Along with a Gallery of His Work
All of the dissatisfactions he had felt in his practice of the art form he had stumbled across within a week of his arrival in America, the cheap conventions, the low expectations among publishers, readers, parents, and educators, the spatial constraints that he had been struggling against in the pages of Luna Moth, seemed capable of being completely overcome, exceeded, and escaped. The Amazing Cavalieri was going to break free, forever, of the nine little boxes.
— Michael Chabon
Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Creativity should be integral to everything that we do. Creativity should also be intrinsic to our personality, if excellence is what we seek.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and do amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Are these magic cloaks?” asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder. “I do not know what you mean by that,” answered the leader of the Elves. “They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that love into all that we make.
Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving.
— Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur
Your only limitation is the limits of your imagination so dream big.
— Artika Tyner
Play and productivity are no longer two separate worlds that rarely meet. They can come together like happy fistfuls of Play-Doh, beautifully blending to reveal the brand-new colors of a meaningful life. You get to play AND do. Play matters. Your life matters. It's time to manifest.
— Marney K. Makridakis
Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.
— Lorii Myers
It is appropriate to speak of the artisans as possessed of wisdom (and not just "skill"), because the biblical writers share the understanding common to most traditional societies that the active form of wisdom is good work. Wisdom does not consist only in sound intellectual work; any activity that stands in a consistently productive relationship to the material world and nurtures the creative imagination qualifies as wise.
— Ellen F. Davis
Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.
— Morrie Schwartz
High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese
— Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I am pushing you, even if it’s off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they’re not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative.
— Nikki Sixx
Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work anyway. Because you’re just wired that way. It’s so engrained, it’s such a part of your personality that you don’t just stop doing it.
— David Sedaris
YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of plastic sheets, suffocating the earth one square inch at a time.
— Nicole Bonomi
Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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.
— Robert Fritz, The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.
— N.M. Silber
Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy and share the fruits of creative labor.
— Lawren Leo, Dragonflame: Tap Into Your Reservoir of Power Using Talismans, Manifestation, and Visualization
Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states cannot be honest, but individuals can. Real books cannot be written by machines or committees. The truth is not always easy to discern, but a lie can and must be called by its right name. And the imagination, like certain wild animals, as Orwell himself once put it, will not breed in captivity. Actually, that last metaphor is beautiful but inaccurate. Even in the most dire conditions, there is a human will to resist coercion. We must believe that even now in North Korea, there are ideas alive inside human brains that were not put there by any authority.
— Christopher Hitchens
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
— Orville Wright, American Inventor and Aviation Pioneer
Always remember: a brand is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world
—  a corner of someone's mind.
I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits. (To be a crackpot is not, however, enough in itself.)
— Isaac Asimov
I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.
— N.M. Silber
You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]
— Germany Kent
Transcendence is before you should you choose to take a swim.Into your deep blue you dive and all that is within.Referred to as my subconscious so you may understand me clear.But there’s nothing very simple about the message I’m sending here.The colour of your blood, the liquid through your veins, is really just a pathway to the place that feels your pains.The heart is an ocean but within it there’s a sun, submerged beneath the ocean, and all that is but one.
— Nicole Bonomi
In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.
— John Mark Reynolds
The Hands create, what the Heart feels!
— courtland kusmierz
Creativity is an endless source that comes from above, from the most high source of creation[God].
— Euginia Herlihy
Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.
— Russell L. Ackoff, The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
— Erica Jong
When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.
— Tim Fargo
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.
— Alexandra Stoddard
Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.
— Leo Tolstoy
With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows.
— Michele Jennae
I believe when we’re able to fully own and express ourselves, we are able to tap into a creative power deeply rooted from our sexual energy – which is our creative energy. We’re so sexually loose, and also sexually strained. We don’t understand the creative power we have because we’re so busy using it in all the wrong ways – or worse, not using it at all.
— Lauryn Doll
Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.
— Mark Hewer
An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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.
— Lester Bangs
Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.
— Carla H. Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun
Ultimately, musicians of the world must come realise the potential of their calling.Like the shamans, we may serve as healers, metaphysicians, inciters, exciters,spiritual guides and sources of inspiration. If the musician is illuminated from within,he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps. Then he is serving planet and its people,healing what ails us. Such music is truly important. It is said that “only one who obeys can truly command.” When the artist is immersed in a services,giving himself up over and over again, another paradox occurs:He is being seen by all others as a master.
— Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery
Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise.
— Yusuf A. Leinge
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— Lester Bangs
An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
As an artist, motive means opportunity
— Siren Waroe
We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.
— Toni Sorenson
Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
— Maya Angelou
This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.
— Itzhak Perlman
What do you really want?Did you know that every single one of your desires is an expression of your soul's longing to experience human life as you? It's true.These pure impulses get filtered through our conditioning and show up distorted at times, but follow them back to their source and nothing you desire is anything but good and possible.
— Jacob Nordby
Writer's block is just another name for fear.
— Jacob Nordby
This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Hurry up! Do it – get it done. You got work to do. Don’t put this off and don’t take the long view. Life is today and tomorrow, and if you are lucky, may be next week.
— Garrison Keillor
Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.
— Charlotte Eriksson
To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.
— Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain. That is what should have been talked about in this assembly, and no one has said a word about it ...Art is inconceivable without risk, without inner sacrifice; freedom and boldness of imagination can be won only in the process of work, and it is there the unforeseen I spoke of a moment ago must intervene, and there no directives can help.
— Boris Pasternak
With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?
— Jacob Nordby
I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the apex of human existence, and that to work at an ordinary office job was a betrayal of that life, and I had to pursue that life at all costs. Management consulting, law school, med school, those were fine for other people — I didn’t judge! — but I was an artist. I was super special. I was sparkly. I would walk another path.And I would walk it alone. That was another thing I knew about being an artist: You didn’t need other people. Other people were a distraction. My little chrysalis of genius was going to seat one and one only.
— Lev Grossman
A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.
— Ryan Lilly
Create a standard for yourself and not a limit. A limit tells where you can reach in life, but standard tells about what you will love to do best at a time!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.
— Awdhesh Singh, Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.
Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.
— Ryan Lilly
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.
— Ryan Lilly
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.
— Ryan Lilly
Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.
— Ryan Lilly
We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.
— Jacob Nordby
This is a hard truth for some to accept: that a lack of resources may not be their true constraint, just a lack of resourcefulness.
— David Burkus, The Myths of Creativity: The Truth about How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas
If you consider that you are changing it mean that you are getting something And try to be different from yesterday, because it makes you confident
— M.Rishad Sakhi
Suppression of love or hatred creates conflict.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR?Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
Creativity is a team sport.
— David Burkus, The Myths of Creativity: The Truth about How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?
— Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and everything that meant anything to me. It's like a germ planted in the skull that devours the brain, spreads to the trunk and the limbs, and destroys the entire body in time. No sooner am I out of bed in the morning than work clamps down on me and pins me to my desk before I've even had a breath of fresh air. It follows me to lunch and I find myself chewing over sentences as I'm chewing my food. It goes with me when I go out, eats out of my plate at dinner and shares my pillow in bed at night. It's so extremely merciless that once the process of creation is started, it's impossible for me to stop it, and it goes on growing and working even when I'm asleep. ... Outside that, nothing, nobody exists.
— Émile Zola, The Masterpiece
The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.
— Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. I hope we will come to an understanding that the material used is only incidental, that there is artist in every man; and that to him the possibility of development and of expression and the happiness of creation is as much a right and as much a duty to himself, as to any of those who work in the especially ticketed ways.
— Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. We have worked hard, but we've hit the wall. We have no idea what to do next.
— Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works
The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.
— Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative