CREATIVITY QUOTES II

quotations about creativity

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

EDWIN LAND

attributed, The Executives Book of Quotations


Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

ANAÏS NIN

diary, Oct. 18, 1936


The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

MARY OLIVER

"Of Power and Time,", Blue Pastures


The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition--as making a spark requires two things struck together.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

interview, Words with Writers, Dec. 5, 2011


To think outside of the box you must be outside of the box.

ALFREDA DOYLE

Poetry about Creativity


Artists know that there is no creativity without a system of formal restraints.

KATHY GALLOWAY

introduction, Dreaming of Eden


Creativity is a matter of life and death for any society.

ARNOLD TOYNBEE

Widening Horizons in Creativity


Creativity is the source of novelty and of the creative advance, which leads to the concretion of actual entities that have not previously existed.

FRIEDRICH RAPP

Whitehead's Metaphysics of Creativity


Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

RAY KROC

attributed, Encarta Book of Quotations


Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

RON CARTER

Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk


They all possessed that virtuous energy of the ancients ... the republic of creative minds: each giant calling to his brother through the desolate intervals of time. And undisturbed by the wanton noises of the dwarfs that creep past beneath them, their high spirit-converse continues.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks


Creativity is never just doing something different. It is doing something different that is significant at that precise point in the cultural tradition.

MARK AMSLER

The Languages of Creativity


My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. The creative person is, in any case, continually working at it. His mind is shuffling his information at all times, even when he is not conscious of it.... The presence of others can only inhibit this process, since creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones, which you naturally do not care to display.

ISAAC ASIMOV

"On Creativity", MIT Technology Review


Peaks of creativity are, of course, rare, as are peaks of strength, beauty, or goodness. We are a gifted species, but feats like penning a Hamlet, or formulating the relativity theory, or inspiring satyagraha by the millions do come but once in a long while. But peaks are not the only attractive or important features of a landscape. There are also vales and moors and meadows and waters and woods. The layperson may look at the sun and conclude there is no worthwhile light elsewhere. She would be mistaken. Lesser human creativity is scattered widely, like the lights of a city at night, and in its own way, is quite attractive and useful.

KWANDWALLA

Lifelong Creativity


You will find that the truth about creativity is hidden behind this high wall in front of us. I have made a ladder that suits me so I can climb up and see what is hidden there. You are welcome to study my ladder, to copy it if you need to, or even climb up on it together with me to see over the wall. However, when I leave I have to take my ladder with me, so the best thing for you is to build your own, one that suits you best.

ANDERS LENNART SWAHN & STAFFAN SVAHN

Creativity


Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

ANNE LAMOTT

"Time Lost and Found", Sunset


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

EDWARD DE BONO

Lateral Thinking for Management


Creativity is one of the main foundations on which human progress is built up.

A. N. P. UMMERKUTTY

Success is a Marathon


The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.

STEPHEN COVEY

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People


I am a natural creator. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy--pure creative energy. It is my birthright to co-create my life and my experience. My dreams come from God. The power to fulfill my dreams is God given. There is an indwelling, underlying creative power infusing all of life, including ourselves. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the Great Creator working with us and within us.

JULIA CAMERON

Heart Steps