Quotes About Creativity

Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth. Without this creative moistening, we may remain barren. We must allow the bolt of pain to strike us. Remember, this is useful pain; lightning illuminates.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, Wait. Not now. Sometimes the step is, Work on something else for a while. When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR

To be an artist is to recognize the particular. To appreciate the peculiar. To allow a sense of play in your relationship to accepted standards. To ask the question "Why?" To be an artist is to risk admitting that much of what is money, property, and prestige strikes you as just a little silly.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

When we forget ourselves, when we let go of being good and just settle into just being a writer, we begin to have the experience of writing through us. We retire as the self-conscious author and become something else - the vehicle for self-expression. When we are just the vehicle, the storyteller and not the point of the story, we often write very well - we certainly write more easily.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

reaching toward God has made me more me and not less me. I was always afraid you would erase me. Instead, you are helping me to sketch me in.

as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

always remember that your Censor's negative opinions are not the truth.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. MARTHA GRAHAM

Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

caricaturists and rodeo clowns be included in that special group of gifted performers?

The truest evidence that any civilization ever leaves behind about itself is its art. Art never lies.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.