Quotes About Creativity

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good I am satisfied.

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Meditation is the gateway to innovation. Archaeologists explore terrain once occupied; Writers and inventors excavate spaces yet conceived.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

To think outside the box; first you must learn how to open the box.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you give them what they don't know they want yet.

Don't be an example in someone else's theory, write yours using your own examples.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Never stop doing what you love because one day someone might want to hire you for it.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.