Quotes About Creativity

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

A creative person conceives lot of innovative ideas and has the potential to create beautiful life, a life full of ambitious, and a life full of contentment.

Your imagination is your preview of lifes coming attractions.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Appreciate the beauty you see everyday, invent what you desire to see and enjoy the fantasies you love to imagine.

Being truly thankful makes you infinitely more resourceful. By sincerely appreciating what you have, you find new and valuable ways to make use of it.

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

Emotional commitment is the fuel that drives innovation.

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.

Years later the Romantic poet John Keats would complain that on that fateful day Newton had "destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to prismatic colors." But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them.

White paint can be made of many things. It can come from chalk or zinc, barium or rice, or from little fossilized sea creatures in limestone graves. The Dutch artist Jan Vermeer even made some of his luminescent whites with a recipe that included alabaster and quartz—in lumps that took the light reflected into the painting and made it dance.3

But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them. While

Art history is so often about looking at the people who made the art; but I realized at that moment there were also stories to be told about the people who made the things that made the art. My

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house.

A novel is something that stands at the end of a lengthy process called writing. It is not a preexisting Platonic form embedded within the writer... I do not have a Boston marathon inside me waiting to get out. The marathon is a peak experience I am rightly entitled to only as the culmination of years of regular training and love of running.

As a rule, young children don't complain of wanting to fingerpaint but finding themselves mysteriously unable to do so.

Even if you don't have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard, I must confess. But

No author was immune from having his own ideas and words quoted back to him favorably. Authors were, at heart, no matter how much they blustered or how suavely they carried themselves, insecure creatures with sensitive egos, as delicate in the constitution as movie stars, only much poorer and less glamorous.