Quotes About Creativity

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.

And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

If people throw rocks at you, collect them and build something.

If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

Wonderful things start to happen when you dream outside of your sleep.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.