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Quotes About Creativity

Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
~ William O. Douglas
I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.
~ William Kittredge
I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.
~ Sune Rose Wagner
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
~ George Chapman
I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.
~ Henry Hopper
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
~ Isabel Allende
All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
~ J. J. Abrams
That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.
~ Unknown
To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
~ James Lee Burke
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Since we have been primed to think of the subconscious as a closet of monsters to be avoided, we tend to fear it. Thus, we avoid the unconscious storage room where the creative solution is hidden.
~ Deborah Sandella
Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss.
~ Jay Woodman
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.
~ Federico Fellini
There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Being creative is not being afraid of being lost.
~ Natasha Tsakos
Lie is a puzzle, solve it with innovation & creativity & experience adventure of life wonderfully.
~ Unknown
Life without vision is like a frame without a picture, it holds nothing.
~ Unknown
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
~ Unknown
Life's hard, but there is still hope. Hope for tomorrow. A day where anything can happen. You could visit new cities, new countries, you can start a NEW day. A NEW life. It's your choice to do whatever your mind can think up. Because life's a blank page... an empty photograph just waiting to be filled with whatever it is that you love.
~ Unknown
Self-expression emerges from inspiration that is sparked by the reflection of others.
~ Unknown
Be always prepared to open up our minds in a way that allows for a solution and not only a solution but the best solution.
~ Unknown
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever yo'uve done and whoever you were and throw them away.
~ Steve Jobs
Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.
~ Ritu Ghatourey