Quotes About Creativity

Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Art originates in experiment

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.

The easiest kind of critical comment is a negative one. In a meeting or conversation, any person who wants to be involved or noticed has to say something. The easiest form of contribution is the negative. Criticism is also emotionally attractive and satisfying. When I attack an idea, I am instantly made superior to the idea or the originator of the idea. Criticism is also one of the few ways in which people who are not creative can achieve something and become influential.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

childhood memories. But now, in 1822, his artistic horizons

For a child of five, art is life and life is art... but once the child is in school they get separated--art becomes art and life becomes life.

After the panic response is established, the mind stops working creatively in your favor. Instead it seems to be set on "automatic pilot" and stops seeking out solutions. The mind focuses on the problem instead of on its solution.

I find imaginary numbers useful when computing my tax deductions.

Reading is only dangerous to those who are afraid to imagine,' Mr. Oku says. 'If there is one thing I hope you got out of the Earnest Book Club, it is that each of you is not afraid to use your imagination. That you have accepted Oscar Wilde's invitation to dare. The dare to read books, banned or not. The dare to think. The dare to imagine. The dare to speak your mind. And the dare to be yourself.

I'm sorry... but it's true?you can't live other people's lives for them. Go home and make something worth while of your own.

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

I loved the world of imagination.