Quotes About Creativity

The only way you can grow is by identifying and developing your source of inspiration.

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

When life gives you lemons, make orange juice and leave people wondering how you did it...

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.

People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does

Art is I; science is we

An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination.

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.'

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bi...ed from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.