Quotes About Creativity

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for me it was more of an art form and a lifestyle.