Quotes on Creative

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.