Quotes on Creative

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music, poetry, dance, sculpture. All that is creative, all that is life-affirmative, is born out of meditation. All that is life-negative - hate, anger, jealousy, violence, war - is born out of the mind. Man has two possibilities: mind and meditation.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

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That which is creative must create itself.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

We have to trust these feelings. We have to trust the invisible gauges we carry within us. We have to realize that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.