Quotes About Creativity

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

Ideas... they have the power

The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a whole new world.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.