Quotes About Creativity

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedius, but not if you brought a book.

Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedious, but not if you brought a book.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.

The essential key for writing is to write regularly — like it or not — great ideas come often by writing; releasing the subconscious — waiting for inspiration and ideas will not work, but it does help to have a notebook with you all the time for sudden brainstorms or inspiration.

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If we do not put effort into creating our original thoughts, then ready-made pseudo-thoughts, trite words and phrases, come automatically to mind and carry us along with them, resulting in "thinking almost entirely without thoughts." (Steiner).

low-key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity. Just

that feeling you might call "writer's block" is actually fear. The

Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.

Build the kaizen habit of asking yourself small (and positive) questions... You are programming your brain for creativity

asking small questions to dispel fear and inspire creativity thinking small thoughts to develop new skills and habits—without moving a muscle taking small actions that guarantee success solving small problems, even when you're faced with an overwhelming crisis bestowing small rewards to yourself or others to produce the best results recognizing the small but crucial moments that everyone else ignores

Kaizen has two definitions: using very small steps to improve a habit, a process, or product using very small moments to inspire new products and inventions

Všechny zm?ny, dokonce i ty pozitivní, vedou k obavám. Pokusy dosáhnout cíle radikálními nebo revolu?ními prost?edky ?asto selhávají, protože zvyšují strach. Ale malé postupné kroky kaizen snižují odpov?? mozku na strach, stimulují racionální myšlení a kreativní hru.

As we've learned, radical programs for change can arouse your hidden and not-so-hidden doubts and fears (What if I fail? What if I achieve my goal—and I'm still unhappy?), setting off the amygdala's alarms. Your brain responds to this fear with skyrocketing levels of stress hormones and lower levels of creativity instead of the positive, consistent energy you need to reach your long-term goals.

These strategies include: asking small questions to dispel fear and inspire creativity thinking small thoughts to develop new skills and habits—without moving a muscle taking small actions that guarantee success solving small problems, even when you're faced with an overwhelming crisis bestowing small rewards to yourself or others to produce the best results recognizing the small but crucial moments that everyone else ignores

So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Creativity isn't learning the right answers but asking the strongest questions.

When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost—and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom the work is likely to sprawl. —T. S. ELIOT

THE PRINCIPLE OF CREATIVE LIMITATION Limitation is vital. The first step toward a well-told story is to create a small, knowable world. Artists by nature crave freedom, so the principle that the structure/setting relationship restricts creative choices may stir the rebel in you. With a closer look, however, you'll see that this relationship couldn't be more positive. The constraint that setting imposes on story design doesn't inhibit creativity; it inspires it.