Quotes About Creativity

Whenever you write down a perception or an idea, you reinforce the behavior of being perceptive or creative. Whenever you fail to describe or record such insights, you reinforce the behavior of being unperceptive and uncreative. Simple, isn't it?

The need to express ourselves at all costs is hard-wired into our brains as deeply as our drive for food or sex.

Pause before making your next big decision. Look around and notice the slight irregularities of the ceiling, the texture of brick underfoot, the feel of your knee bending and straightening, and the slight shifts of sensation in your shoulders, stomach, neck, and face. You can't really explain why, but when you widen your neurological contact with the world in this way you feel stronger, wiser, and more creative—and you choose more wisely.

Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office." quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.

Neither E=mc [squared] nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination…Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Spirit is born of the imitation of spirit and a writer must pretend to be a writer in order finally to become a writer.

Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Wielka Poezja b?d?c wielk? i b?d?c poezj? nie mo?e nie zachwyca? nas, a wi?c zachwyca!

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.