Quotes About Creativity

To live strongly and creatively in the kingdom of the heavens, we need to have firmly fixed in our minds what our future is to be like. We want to live fully in the kingdom now, and for that purpose our future must make sense to us. It must be something we can now plan or make decisions in terms of, with clarity and joyful anticipation. In this way our future can be incorporated into our life now and our life now can be incorporated into our future.

Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty.

We sing from this passage, "When we've been there ten thousand years, bright, shining as the sun…." But we should understand that brightness always represents power, energy, and that in the kingdom of our Father we will be active, unimaginably creative.

Now, Jesus himself was and is a joyous, creative person. He does not allow us to continue thinking of our Father who fills and overflows space as a morose and miserable monarch, a frustrated and petty parent, or a policeman on the prowl.

Unlike egotism, the drive to significance is a simple extension of the creative impulse of God that gave us being. It is not filtered through self-consciousness any more than is our lunge to catch a package falling from someone's hand. It is outwardly directed to the good to be done. We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny.

As creators and consumers they fill the field of pop culture today, which is an economic enterprise and only by accident occasionally has something to do with art. Art objects are now commonly referred to as "product" by those who handle them and only make news when they are sold for absurdly large sums or are stolen.

As far as expressing the creative turmoil within my head was concerned, I took to the English language as a duck takes to water. I was therefore a keen accomplice and student in my own mental colonisation.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

falling short to deliver responses is one of the most popular blunders that innovators create.

God's sovereignty is not an invitation to passivity. Instead, it is a call to wise and risky creativity.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.

We are now perched on a strange cusp of history, a time when the world feels like it's been turned upside down, and nothing is quite as we imagined. But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.

Nothing is more creative...nor destructive...than a brilliant mind wiht a purpose

Memento mori," the monarch whispered. "Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin. —ANTONI GAUDÍ

When a computer creates art, who is the artist—the computer or the programmer? At MIT, a recent exhibit of highly accomplished algorithmic art had put an awkward spin on the Harvard humanities course: Is Art What Makes Us Human?

One great work of art inspired by another.

In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.