Quotes on Creativity

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.