Quotes About Creativity

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. C. G. JUNG

Without being acknowledged, they are often used as batteries by their families and friends, who feel free to both use their creative energies and disparage them.

When we let ourselves write from love, when we let ourselves steal minutes as gifts to ourselves, our lives become sweeter, our temperaments become sweeter.

Self-expression is something that does not—and should not—ever stop.

Most of us are really willing only to write well, and this is why the act of writing strains us.

We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.

real artists can survive the most hostile environments and yet find their true calling like homing pigeons. That's hogwash. Many real artists bear children too early or have too many, are too poor or too far removed culturally or monetarily from artistic opportunity to become the artists they really are.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

We must actively, consciously, consistently, and creatively nurture our artist selves.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. PABLO PICASSO

Jealousy tells us there is room for only one—one poet, one painter, one whatever you dream of being.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

We must remain ready to ask, open-minded enough to be led, and willing to believe despite our bouts of disbelief. Creativity is an act of faith, and we must be faithful to that faith, willing to share it to help others, and to be helped in return.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. M. C. RICHARDS

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. LEO TOLSTOY Creative living requires the luxury of time, which we carve out for ourselves—even if it's fifteen minutes for quick morning pages and a ten-minute minibath after work.

We all know how broke-crazy-promiscuous-unreliable artists are. And if they don't have to be, then what's my excuse?

The great acting coach Michael Chekhov advised his students, "If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

Why should we all use our creative power …? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money. BRENDA UELAND

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

To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect audition monologue.

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. MINOR WHITE

Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific, an origin from which work flows.

Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.