Quotes About Creativity

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.