Quotes on Inspiration And Creativity

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

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

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

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