Creativity Quotes - Page 13

• I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

  Billy Collins

  Brother, Thinking, Imagination

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• Bugs Bunny is my muse.

  Billy Collins

  Bunnies, Bugs, Muse

  "Everyday moments, caught in time". "TED Talks", www.ted.com. 2012.

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• I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

  Maya Beiser

  Want, Possibility, Endless Possibilities

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• Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

  Martin Buber

  Inspirational, Play, Encounters

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.178, eBookIt.com

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• I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

  Robin Trower

  Blessed, Able, Feels

  "Robin Trower Interview: Living Out of Time". Interview with Brian Holland, guitarinternational.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

  Giacomo Meyerbeer

  Artistic, Fame, Preserves

  Giacomo Meyerbeer (1989). “Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Life in Letters”

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• Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Soul, Technique

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• If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Voice, Body

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 28, 2015

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• If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

  Etty Hillesum

  Deals, Wells, Ifs

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• One often makes music to supplement one's world.

  Brian Eno

  World, Supplements

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• I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

  Glen Hansard

  Guitar, Good Times, Miserable

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

  Gary Coleman

  People, Brain, Electronics

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• Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

  Sergio Aragones

  Character, Expression, Action

  Q&As, sergioaragones.com.

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• Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Dictator, Subversive

  1972 'The Artist as Housewife', in The First Ms. Reader.

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• A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Desire, Events

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• Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.

  E. M. Forster

  Two, Perfect, Personality

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• Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

  Peter Shepherd

  Wisdom, Reality, Pleasure

  Peter Shepherd (2010). “Daring to Be Yourself”, p.198, DoctorZed Publishing

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• I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creative, Desire, Speak

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.126, Penguin

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• In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Giving, Details

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.157

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• We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Creative, Asking, Fundamentals

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• Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

  Pablo Neruda

  Winter, Rivers, Know How

  Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner (2004). “The essential Neruda: selected poems”, p.167, City Lights Books

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• Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

  Gail Sheehy

  Letting Go, Illumination, Editing

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• Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

  Abraham Maslow

  Lightning, Moments, Impression

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• Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Art, Creative, Umbilical Cord

  Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”

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• The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

  Paul Klee

  Intelligent, People, Creative

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.308, Univ of California Press

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