Quotes About Creativity

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

looks promising and I've taken it up again on occasion. But whenever I did, I realized why I'd not carried on in the first place – in the same way that a specialist might say of a child, that one's not going to grow up right. I could tell that it wouldn't develop into a finished picture.

Photographers, like painters, seldom retire.

Indeed, in his view, being difficult – 'singular and reserved, or whatever you may be pleased to call it' – was actually a necessity for those who wanted to achieve remarkable things.

the picture in order to move us must never merely remind us of life, but must acquire a life of its own, precisely in order to reflect life'.

The pursuit of art is a journey that never stops; the more you see, the more you want to see.

A plentiful supply of paper – just as much as the study of ancient sculpture or single-point perspective – was among the factors that led to what we call the Renaissance. It allowed artists to think and work in different ways, a transformation as significant as the Internet and computer technology have been in the early twenty-first century.

If you are painter it's your whole existence. It's not an activity

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

The great men of science are supreme artists.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food.

The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

And it's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science – it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.) Indeed

Entertainment and art are not isolated.

If a living place can be likened to a city, the art on the wall, or the lack of art, is the first sign

the Apple logo hangs from an unseen thread in many Apple Stores like a Bethlehem star?