Quotes About Creativity

we need an education that enhances individual strengths, follows children's passions,

It is precisely the lack of explicit objectives determined by external parties that fascinates children.

Thus for those in developed countries to be globally competitive, they must offer something qualitatively different, that is, something that cannot be obtained at a lower cost in developing countries.

If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Um, I made 15 copies [of The Shack] at Office Depot. It did everything I ever wanted it to do -- in those 15 copies. All of the rest of this is, I think, you know, is part of God's great sense of humor. And I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

We are all born artists. … Almost everything kids do is art.

Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something then you're more willing to take risks.

At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue. I was young then and it was no easy matter to persuade my bottom to maintain such constant intimacy with my chair

As we Chinese say, you don't have to pay tax on bullshit. That being so, why not bullshit to the max?

A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out, from perfect silence

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

I want to make a poem of my life.

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.

Those who lack imagination have no choice but to base their conclusions on the reality they see around them. But on the other hand, those who are imaginative have a tendency to build fortified castles they have designed themselves, and to seal off every window in them.

The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal

Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside.

Daydreaming is not an intellectual process but rather an escape from intellectualism.