"An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours."
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163 quotes about Creativity
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Creativity Quotes
"It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities."
"Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted."
"A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process."
"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
"Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between the images. Make a list of creative dreams you've thought of or admire in others."
"Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination."
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."
"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."
"If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all."
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
"God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice trial and error. His ways are sure, they may be low but they are always sure."
"Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience."
"Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before."
"Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity."
"Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step."
"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate."
"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."