To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
There's a way to do it better -- find it.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Longer Version:
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ".
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Longer Version:
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Creativity takes courage.
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Longer Version:
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
