Quotes About Creativity

The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. —Harpo Marx

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. —Thomas Edison

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. —Maya Angelou

The one thing that kept me moving forward has been the profound sense of joy I felt as I was receiving the material.

For a long time, I felt like I was living a closeted life, hiding what seemed most real to me from the rest of the world...I feel incredibly grateful to all those who have entrusted me with their own deeply personal stories of creative awakening.

rainbows and starfish.

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real," said Penn. "Made up is the most powerful real there is.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard. Otherwise, what's the point of stories?

Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real...Made up is the most powerful real there is.

Story is the best magic there is.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.

what his father had been up to all these years, not entertaining his children but perfecting his world. If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did. If you told your own story, you got to pick your ending. Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

Hormones contribute to intelligence and creativity, critical thinking, abstract analysis.

If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did. If you told your own story, you got to pick your ending. Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

how impossible it is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you couldn't even imagine.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

My theory is that a strong healthy man isn't likely to be creative. It is illness and pain that encourages him to live another life.

In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.