Quotes About Creativity

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.