Quotes About Creativity

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.

All things that truly matter - beauty , love , creativity ,joy , inner-peace - arise from beyond the mind .

Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

When there is stress, it is usually a sign that the ego has returned, and you are cutting yourself off from the creative power of the universe.

No-mind is consciousness without thought. Only in that way is it possible to think creatively, because only in that way does thought have any real power. Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, destructive.

La no-mente es conciencia sin pensamiento. Sólo la no-mente permite pensar creativamente, porque da al pensamiento un poder real.

I would say that the simple reason why the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to stop thinking!

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing, the same nothing. They are an externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence. Most humans are completely unconscious of this dimension. There is no inner space, no stillness. They are out of balance. [...] They identify exclusively with their own physical and psychological form, unconscious of essence.

Just because you can solve a crossword puzzle or build an atom bomb doesn't mean that you use your mind. Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information — this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

All creativity comes out of inner spaciousness.

the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to stop thinking!

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information — this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. The mind then gives form to the creative impulse or insight. Even the great scientists have reported that their creative breakthroughs came at a time of mental quietude.

All creativity comes out of inner spaciousness. Once the creation has happened and something has come into form, you have to be vigilant so that the notion of me or mine does not arise. If you take credit for what you accomplished, the ego has returned, and the spaciousness has become obscured.

Your physical energy is also subject to cycles. It cannot always be at a peak. There will be times of low as well as high energy. There will be periods when you are highly active and creative, but there may also be times when everything seems stagnant, when it seems that you are not getting anywhere, not achieving anything.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do then is "ride the wave.

The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Todos los artistas verdaderos, lo sepan o no, crean desde un lugar de no-mente, de quietud interior. La mente entonces da forma a la visión o impulso creativo. Incluso los grandes científicos han dicho que sus grandes logros creativos llegaron en un momento de quietud mental.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity.

all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. Become aware of the stillness. When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative. In any thought activity, make it a habit to go back and forth every few minutes or so between thinking and an inner kind of listening, an inner stillness. We could say: don't just think with your head, think with your whole body.

Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It's not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything to read while they sit on the toilet.