Quotes About Creativity

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.

Art presupposes nature, whereas nature doesn't presuppose art. Man's creative abilities, which are more admirable than any of his products, are not themselves produced my man: the genius of Shakespeare was not the work of Shakespeare. Nature supplies not only the materials but also the models for all arts;

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

It probably isn't coincidental that so many of them are the work of writer-directors who are passionate about telling their stories—as opposed to journeymen who are simply carrying out an assignment

discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.

Thomas Edison is often said to have advised, "To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

The lesson is that, though we expect our best thinking time to be when we are fresh, our elastic thinking capacity may be highest when we feel "burnt out." That's good to know when scheduling your tasks—you could be better at generating imaginative ideas if you do that kind of thinking after working on a chore that involves a period of tedious, focused effort that strains your powers of concentration.

the elasticity of our thinking allows us to move beyond the existing world of our senses and invent new concepts.

but dreams and myths are expressions of the human heart.

Visionaries are those in the field of art and science who recognize novel patterns. They see beauty before the rest of us do.

Of the three traditional ways of making a living — mud, blood, and grease — preaching involves all three: the mud pies of creativity, the blood bank of living in the Word, and the grease pit of hard work and dirty hands.

You can't up-up-and-away in creativity and innovation without spending down-on-the-ground time in the muck and the mire.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams, than the imagination awake.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art