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The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them.
— Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
Tis well to borrow from the good and the great
—  'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music
— Herbie Hancock
(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.
— Seán Ó Faoláin
Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
No matter what your circumstance, if you provide kids with creative ammunition, they will blast holes into an oppressive reality, and conceive limitless worlds.
— A.J. Mendez Brooks, Crazy Is My Superpower:  How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking the Rules
Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative.
— Richie Norton
Want creativity? Diversify your experience to develop your creative muscles.
— Richie Norton
You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.
— Richie Norton
Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, themselves often deluded by infatuation with fatuous models, conspire in the deception. They make serious tasks seem dull and hard, and frivolous ones exciting and easy. Schools generally fial to teach how exciting, how mesmerizingly beautiful science or mathematics can be; they teach the routine of literature or history rather than the adventure.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
— Theodore Levitt
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.
— Issac Asimov
Creativity happens only when ego is absent,when you are relaxed, in deep rest, when there is really no desire to do something. Suddenly you are gripped;some unknown force overwhelms you,takes possession of you.
— Osho, Tarot in the Spirit of Zen
For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he cannot manage to put his back into it. Once in a while the need to create wells up in him, the longing to see a part of himself set free in a work by him, and for days at a time his being can be tensed with joyous, titanic efforts to mold the clay into his Adam. But he is never able to shape him into a semblance of his image, he does not have enough stamina to maintain the self-discipline that it demands. It make take weeks for him to give up the work, but he does give it up, and irritably asks himself why he should keep on: what more does he have to gain? He has enjoyed the pleasure of creation, the tedium of upbringing remains, to nurse, nurture, and support entirely - why? for whom? He is no pelican, he says. But whatever he says, he is still ill at ease and feels that he has not done justice to the expectations he has of himself. It doesn’t help him to confront these expectations and try to doubt that their demands on him are justified. He is faced with a choice, and he must choose; for life is such that when the first youth is gone, sooner or later - depending on the natural disposition of the person - sooner or later a day dawns when resignation comes to you like a seducer and tempts you, and you have to say farewell to the impossible and accept it.
— Jens Peter Jacobsen
Creativity is like the ocean: sometimes it is an unstoppable wave bursting forth, crashing onto the shore, and overwhelmingly flowing with no hope of restraint; other times it is completely still, lingering aimlessly and endlessly, seemingly devoid of any inspiration.
— Ken Poirot
After curiosity, this quality of concentrated attention is what creative individuals mention most often as having set them apart in college from their peers. Without this quality, they could not have sustained the hard work, the ‘perspiration.’ Curiosity and drive are in many ways the yin and the yang that need to be combined in order to achieve something new.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody else does either. They question the obvious—not out of contrariness but because they see the shortcomings of accepted explanations before the rest of us do. They sense problems before they are generally perceived and are able to define what they are.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Kill Piracy
—  Save Creativity
We live in a world where value of creativity is measured by commercial success, and copyrights are mere instruments of financial benefit, not creative progress
— Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
Most agree that a useful definition of creative work is that it includes a combination of novelty and value. Creativity requires novelty because tried-and-true solutions are not creative, even if they are ingenious and useful. And creative works must be valuable (useful or illuminating to at least some members of the population) because a work that is merely odd is not creative. This two-pronged definition of creativity also provides an explanation of why the creative can lie close to the insane (unusual but valueless behavior).
— Alice W. Flaherty, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
The culture of making is more about a mindset than a lifestyle. Makers have a curiosity for the built world around them. Understanding where things come from, how they are made, the potential of their function now and beyond, and what it takes to make something not only provides a context to appreciate the object at hand but is essential to imagining infinite possibilities for the future.
— Rachelle Doorley, Tinkerlab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Inventors
...innovation is highly context-dependent. It is a response to a particular problem at a particular time and place. Take away the context, and you remove both the spur to innovation, and its raw material.
— Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.
— John Scalzi
Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symbolic defenses mechanism to shield themselves from knowledge of their impermanence. Every person possesses autonomy of the will, the ability to choose how to conduct their life. The freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless; it provides a person with no sense of meaning and supplies no purpose to life because a mere collection of objects will not transcend their physical demise. An artist does not deny their impermanence but embraces the prospect of their death by laboring to create a monument of their existence that will survive their expiry.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
— Victor Shamas
It was one dev, naked in a room with a carton of cigarettes, a thermos full of coffee and bourbon, and all his summoned angels.
— MIchael Kirkbride
When people really are writers, they write. Artists draw. Golfers golf. Fish swim. Can’t keep them from it; it’s who they are. They may dream of the big time, but in the meantime, they’ll draw or write on napkins if they have to, and every hallway is a fairway. Or a green.Dave Brisbin
— David Brisbin
Question everything, including your questions. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Why are you asking? Why are you asking in this particular way? Is it really the right question for the answer you are seeking? Are there additional questions you need to be asking? Don't be afraid to think outside of the box. Don't be afraid of creativity and innovation.
— Akiroq Brost
This is not a how-to book.It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book.In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never a photograph or diagram in sight. Your mind's eye will create all the images in this text, and each mind is unique. Getting these, and other images, down on paper will provide you with fun, frustration, joy and despair. Like life,
— Judith Mason, The Mind's Eye: An Introduction to Making Images.
I think much of a #writerslife is figuring out how much coffee is needed to fuel madness & creativity while avoiding having to pee.
— Jennifer Worrell
Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.
— Michelle C. Hillstrom
Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.
— Michelle C. Hillstrom
...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want anyone to save me
— Kate Bolick
Om meditation makes the mind spacious. It gives the freedom for focus and divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is the center of human creativity.
— Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.
— James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The intelligence that shaped the universe, shaped you. There is an inner part of us, for ever obscured, for ever mysterious, which is most alive during the process of composition. And that inner part, that inner glow, is timeless, and it functions beyond time. It drinks from deep waters. It has the stillness and the dance and the radiance of firmament. When one is most absorbed in the act of creation one almost feels that one is wandering in the great corridors of all minds. Creativity makes us part of it all.
— Ben Okri, A Way of Being Free
The train will not find you. You must find the train, its pulse, its way of being beyond obvious rock and sway. The train’s pulse is deeper than movement. If you listen, you will hear the song of the train, and when you find the song, you will find the engine, the heart, the blood, the pulse. This is how we create.
— Cathleen Margaret
The most important thing is to be excellent, interesting, authentic, or useful. To be the thing, not the thing that sells the thing. That's fantastic news for creative people, who specialize in the stuff. Thanks to toomuchness, creativity, once exclusively the province of poets, has suddenly become a business imperative.
— Andrew Essex, The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die, and the Creative Resurrection to Come
Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
— Beth Revis, Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice
... creative output depends on creative input.
— Robert C. Martin, The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
Boredom doesn't exist where creativity lives.
— Sanjo Jendayi
The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours
— Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature its reality is the result of work accomplished by the human spirit, no matter what the material facts that may have stimulated it (a walk, a night of love, a social drama), of a sort of discovery in the world of the spirit, of the emotions, made by the human intelligence, so that the value of a book is never in the material presented by the writer, but in the nature of the operation he performs upon it.
— Marcel Proust, Jean Santeuil
Whenever new knowledge causes you to question your previous assumptions, the stage is set for creative transformation.
— Cathy Wild, Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out
Set your imagination free and do your best to keep up with it.
— A.R. Fagundes
Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.
— Angie-Marie Delsante
Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.
— Nadun Lokuliyanage
The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary OliverI know, you never intended to be in this world.But you’re in it all the same.So why not get started immediately.I mean, belonging to it.There is so much to admire, to weep over.And to write music or poems about.Bless the feet that take you to and fro.Bless the eyes and the listening ears.Bless the tongue, the marvel of taste.Bless touching.You could live a hundred years, it’s happened.Or not.I am speaking from the fortunate platformof many years,none of which, I think, I ever wasted.Do you need a prod?Do you need a little darkness to get you going?Let me be as urgent as a knife, then,and remind you of Keats,so single of purpose and thinking, for a while,he had a lifetime.Mary oliver
— Mary Oliver
The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
By the early-afternoon hours, if your brain is normal, it's running strictly on inertia and reflex. All you can do during those hours are the things that are exactly like other things you've done in similar situations. Creativity is out of the question. You might argue that you don't notice any difference in your thinking during the afternoon. That's because you're too dazed to notice anything during those hours. I'm sure it's true for me; I believe you could set my eyebrows on fire during the afternoon and I wouldn't notice until sometime the next morning.
— Scott Adams, The Joy of Work: Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers
Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
Instead of thinking outside the box,Get rid of the box.
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Desire is the impulse that sparks the flame.
— Cathy Wild, Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out
We have a choice to live in the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Darkness.
— Mommy Moo Moo
Every mistake is a new style.
— Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.
— John Ridley
There is this one thing that makes a big difference: creativity! There is this one thing that gives birth to great things: imaginations! The world we see is a product of creativity and imaginations, and they that know the power of creativity and how to give life to their imaginations live and leave distinctive footprints!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- because of the necessity of finding a word which rhymes. This forces novel associations, and almost guarantees deviations from routine chains or trains of thought. It becomes, paradoxically, a sort of automatic mechanism of originality.
— Stanislaw Ulam
Creativity flourishes in solitude.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
The collective sensation is one’s perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
While the individual contributions provide the “building block” of creativity
—  it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting.
Creativity is like a muscle
—  you must exercise it daily or it atrophies.
Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creativity is like the light, the reason we see the light because the “switch” is on and the connection is made
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Context is a chain of associations which stimulate creativity.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creativity isn’t necessarily a paint-by-numbers process, more as a “connect-the-dots” adventure.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Without constructive skepticism, without human progress.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Self-reflection is an important stage to diagnose, develop and strengthen your creativity.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Prioritization provides a framework for focusing on creativity.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Inspiration is not just a short-term momentum. It could take time and generations of change to truly build a culture of creativity.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
To motivate” is the act of giving somebody a reason or incentive to do things.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creativity is fluid, like the fountainhead from within you, flowing out.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Digital is the age of innovation because creativity is about connecting the dots in the wider scope.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital It: 100 Q&as
Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
I want to live a creative life.
— Jaye Gray
Creativity - waking up in a different place every day.
— Bogdan Vaida
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
— Dorothy Parker
I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
— Ingmar Bergman
Creativity is more than the capacity to be inventive or innovative; it’s more than the ability to create great works of art, music, or dance. Creativity is an inherent tool that’s needed for wellness.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Creativity is utilizing both sides of the brain simultaneously - creative + activity.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
We knock upon silence for an answering music.
— Archibald MacLeish
Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Thinking out of the box means you are in a continuous learning mode.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creativity requires openness and growth mind to new experiences and explore new possibilities.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Vision is not fiction
—  fiction could be a pure imagination
Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Subconsciousness is quick and efficient and sometimes can spur creativity.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Being confident means you know who you are, your strength and your limitation.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creativity is a passion for some who are inquisitive and want to explore new possibilities.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think “harder” via different thought processes.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creative people are optimistic realists to discover versatility.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.
— David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.
— David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Today could be the day you live at your creative best.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Developing the skill of creativity, like with any other skill, takes time. Do devote time to creativity. Honor its flow and its magic. Allow it to become your Life Force. Train Creativity daily.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Conscious Creativity; Mindfulness Meditations
It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a great learned man to imitate God’s ability to create. As Prometheus stole the fire of the Gods and brought it to the mankind, humanity needed to steal the secret of ‘creation’ from Gods and understand its essence.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Conscious Creativity; Mindfulness Meditations
A thought weaves into another thought, seeking the other. The thought world has its-own Inner Life. A rose acts upon us through its symbolism, through its beauty, through our conscious & sub-conscious mind.Meditating we tap into the thought form of ‘rose adoration’.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Conscious Creativity; Mindfulness Meditations
The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I simply vowed to the universe that I would write forever, regardless of the result. I promised that I would try to be brave about it, and grateful, and as uncomplaining as I could possibly be. I also promised that I would never ask writing to take care of me financially, but that I would always take care of it - meaning that I would always support us both, by any means necessary. I did not ask for any external rewards for my devotion; I just wanted to spend the rest of my life as near to writing as possible - forever close to that source of all my curiosity and contentment.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
— Andres Giraldo
Beautify your inner dialogue and it'll open the doorway to creativity
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
Teaching is a dialogue, and it is through the process of engaging students that we see ideas taken from the abstract and played out in concrete visual form. Students teach us about creativity through their personal responses to the limits we set, thus proving that reason and intuition are not antithetical. Their works give aesthetic visibility to mathematical ideas.
— Martha Boles, Universal Patterns
Listen: Love your fiction, even if you hate the act of creating that fiction, love the stories to a fault. Cry at your tragedies, laugh at your jokes, rejoice at your character's victories — or give it all up and go knit a damned sweater, instead.
— Caitlín R. Kiernan
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
— Caitlín R. Kiernan
Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
The true ENTREPRENEUR is a risk taker, not an excuse maker.
— VDEXTERS
Find creative ways to express your love.
— Iman Refaat
It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
Action is the mother of creation.
— Tatjana Urbic
When we dream, there are no facts. Just imagination!
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
Simple ideas INVOLVE individuals
—  INSPIRE crowds
We think we are far more creative and wiser than others who are surviving and struggling. We never put us in their shoe. We always expect them to do the same.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.
— Johan Fundin, Mr. Maniac
The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.
— Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels
The hardest situation is when the individuals desperate “to cut off your wings” are your closest family members whom you can’t escape dealing with.
— Sahara Sanders
We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.
— Clive Barker
Without opposition, there could be no creation. All life would cease without resistance. Emotions also have their polar opposites: attraction – repulsion, love – hate, aggression – meekness, and mercy – callousness.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Develop your intellect and your creative ways of thinking
— Sunday Adelaja
If you want to be creative, eat salt not sugar.
— Dean Keak Tegn
The Creator fuels creativity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The more you have seen, the larger your cognitive map, the more you can imagine.
— Robert Gerlach, Innovator's High
Desperation is the father of invention.
— Micheal Lee Nelson, Ceres 2525
Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation
— Natasha Tsakos
There are two gradations of cold that are always acceptable: Mild Frost, which is preferable for reading and writing and any other activity done indoors, and Absolute Zero, which is the only temperature suitable for sleep. There is nothing more delicious than being swathed in a cocoon of blankets and awaking with a nose frosted over with rime, and once I do achieve vampiric heights and fall asleep with the mastery of a corpse lately dead, I am best left alone until I wake up at my usual time. I do tend to bite when rattled out of my flocculent coffin, and everyone in my building knows never to disturb me during the early morning hours. Authors, being crepuscular creatures, should never be roused before 11am: the creative mind is never turned off; it only dies momentarily and its revived by the scent of coffee at the proper time.Bacon is also an acceptable restorative.
— Michelle Franklin, I Hate Summer: My tribulations with seasonal depression, anxiety, plumbers, spiders, neighbours, and the world.
We are all potential of un-excited creativity
— Natasha Tsakos
Creativity is not a gift, it’s a mindset that you practice
— Natasha Tsakos
The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.
— Natasha Tsakos
Turn your thoughts to novel writing—narrative, let it be about what it will, is read, because the mind quietly acquiesces, and it requires no trouble to think about it. On your part it will demand much less care in the composition. Never mind improbabilities—put together a sufficient number of facts—the more unlikely the better. If you are too idle to choose the trouble of inventing, collect eight or nine of the most popular works of that sort; take a piece of one, and a piece of another, and put them together, only a little altered, just to disguise them: never mind whether what the painters call keeping, can in this motley assemblage be attended to; nobody thinks about that: sprinkle the whole plentifully with horrors of some sort or other, to stimulate the languid attention, and you will have a certainty of a sale at least among the circulating libraries, which, after all, is the principal sale that can be expected; for who buy novels?—Who indeed buy books at all in these times?
— Charlotte Turner Smith, Marchmont
It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.
— Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats Revised Edition
Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.
— Adam Grant, Originals
Creativity is just about connecting things. A whole lot of nonsense put together, and diluted with a creative passion can eventually make sense. Keep thinking. Exploring. Keep trying out new ways and methods of doing things and just when you least expect, you may stumble on that next great world-changing idea that will make all the difference.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Creativity can turn into an avalanche or a tempest, but can also flow like a meandering tributary to same destination
— Val Uchendu
Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.
— Michele Jennae
While she'd been drying her hair, she'd come up with a new message for her answering machine - "I'm out, deliberately avoiding your call" - and that simple burst of creativity had raised her spirits a bit.
— Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
Creativity is not just a job position or function but it is the attitude to life
— Baris Gencel
Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.
— Niall Williams, History of the Rain
In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” - It means to change or alter things that already exist.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Creativity is salve for the soul
— Phillip Gary Smith, HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
I love the needle poke, the red pop/ and when an arc of red drops,/ quivering and shaped like wings/ beg me to lick them off,/ quickly savoring your shoulder/ newly marked with a nearly invisible/ but indelible butterfly
— Rachel Dacus, Gods of Water and Air
Always dig through the thoughts underneath the words, and be authentic of being who you are.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Because Filipinos are very creative and assiduous people, they will always find a way to make things happen.
— Tim Liwanag, First Filipino World Records
It's cool to know I thought a book into existence.
— Garry Fitchett
Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Most of us are still in some small way victims of the Industrial Revolution. Whether through our grandparents, our parents, or our own experience, we were raised to believe that our place in life required compliance and conformity rather than creativity and uniqueness. We have been raised in a world where information is deemed far more important than imagination. Adults replaced dreams with discipline when they were finally ready to grow up and be responsible for their lives. Whether this contrast was reinforced on an assembly line, in a cubicle, or in a classroom, the surest path to acceptance in society is accepting standardization. And we more than willingly, relinquish our uniqueness.
— Erwin Raphael McManus, The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art
We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in
— Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works
An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Money chases good ideas
— Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works
Because I came to seeThat I should never have been a first-rate potter.I didn't have it in me. It's strange, isn't it, That a man should have a consuming passion To do something for which he lacks the capacity? Could a man be said to have a vocation To be a second-rate potter? To be, at best,A competent copier, possessed by the cravingTo create, when one is wholly uncreative?I don't think so. For I came to see, That I had always known, at the secret moments,That I didn't have it in me. There are occasionsWhen I am transported- a different person,Transfigured in the vision of some marvellous creation,And I feel what the man must have felt when he made it.But nothing I made ever gave me that contentment-That state of utter exhaustion and peaceWhich comes in dying to give something life...
— T.S Eliot
Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.
— David Eddings, Crystal Gorge
Love is a felt force when we become aware of it. Our cognition must be added to the reality of existence. This is the dance of love. We must cultivate our seeds that we plant in each other's lives. Only then we will enlarge our view of love, beauty, creativity, and purpose.
— Luis Enrique Cavazos, The Five Virtues That Awaken Your Life
The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.
— Geoff Dyer, The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
We all have a god and a poet inside us. The poet, the human; the god, the divine.It is by the grace of our god that we can find the divine inspiration with which to wax poetic about our human experiences.
— Michele Jennae
To beat the competition and succeed in today's competitive market, you should be abreast with the change in the marketplace not forgetting about incorporating creativity and innovation as a lifestyle.
— Oscar Bimpong
He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.
— David Eddings, Crystal Gorge
Creativity is a gift of the Creator to His creation
— Kirk Manton
Creativity is not result, it is a process!
— Baris Gencel
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.
— A.E. Samaan
Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the process.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics
—  and soft elements such as communication and culture.
The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear.
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Creativity is a flame that lights up and ignites the senses
— Suzy Davies
Together we are learning to move from raw emotion and frozen muscles into a flow which emerges deep from within. We are learning to dance our prayers, bleed our words onto the page, laugh our images onto canvas, build our dreams in the world – to transmute and transmit the energy of the Feminine through our bodies and out into the world.
— Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman
This is the crux of being a Creative Mother. It is more than how many jumpers you have knitted, or having an exhibition in a fancy gallery, or a bookshelf of your own books. It is about the act of living authentically whilst honoring your mother self and creative self. About saying yes to life, every part of your life, and finding how to weave them all together.
— Lucy H. Pearce, The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood
Catching creativity is like catching butterflies – fast-flying, bright-colored sparks darting here and there, it requires quick wits, good eyes and desire to net them. And once you have them, you need to act fast. An idea, like a butterfly doesn’t last long: it is ephemeral. It is here, and now it is gone – so quick, grab your laptop, your pen and paper, your Dictaphone, your sketch pad, whatever your mode of expression or recording, swoop and catch.
— Lucy H. Pearce, The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood
What I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being able to write out your thoughts fluently are very great. For one thing, when you are used to writing them out, they present themselves, one after another. When you are not used to writing them out, they mill around among themselves usually and you see nothing but heads and tails of them when you sit down to get them on paper. I know from my own experience that the first two or three hours of every exam I ever took were spent simply getting my pen warmed up, and by then it was too late.
— Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
There is a juiciness to creativity, a succulence that comes up from within, a sensuality which both produces and is soothed by the act and product of creativity. Creativity is pleasing to us on a deep level. Be it the feel of clay in our hands, the colors that make us feel alive as we knit or sew, the meaning that we find in the words that we write, the energizing feel of movement as we dance and the music moves through our bodies. Taking part in creativity helps us to be more fully alive on every level, it asks that we engage with life in a visceral, and interactive way.
— Lucy H. Pearce, The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood
Dare to be different. Find the courage to accept that you may always fit in, and the peace within to stop looking for the approval of others. Just be the amazing being that you are. People who shine the light of who they truly are, are inspiring to others.
— Eileen Anglin
In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.
— Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you are free, you can go off in any direction whatsoever, so long as the flame in your mind burns that way.
— Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but ingenuity is the bombshell of success
— Phillip Gary Smith, HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
The majority of boys think the highest form of creativity is weeing a pattern into snow.
— Beth Garrod, Super Awkward
i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.
— Jonathan Heatt
The creative journey is not a trek through the wilderness, but actually a clearly defined path, which though not visible to our outside eyes, can be felt with our inner senses.
— Lucy H. Pearce, The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood
Creativity is a clashing of opposites.
— Graham Fink
When Dr. Jung said we must be able to look forward in old age to the next day and to look forward to the great adventure that is ahead, he was making life’s “imperative to grow” personal. As long as we are alive, we must be able to dream of the future, of a better world or better ways of life. We are also invited by our greater Self to dream new dreams of creativity and fresh ways of expressing ourselves, as many great artists have into their nineties.
— Bud Harris
Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition.
— Md. Ziaul Haque
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
— Ernest Becker