Quotes About Creativity

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

Ive done a lot of albums and I kinda know when Im onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.