Creativity Quotes - Page 14

• Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Bad Ass, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Entering, Dimensions

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• It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Unhappy, World

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• I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

  Ruth Gordon

  Jobs

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• Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

  Julia Cameron

  Flower, Green, Force

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

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• Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

  Julia Cameron

  Sensible, Has Beens

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.147, Souvenir Press

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• We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

  Nelson Goodman

  World, Versions

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• You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Creative, Way, Obstacles

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

  Josef Albers

  Discovery, Opinion, Invention

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• Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

  Eric Maisel

  Vacation, Giving, Mental Toughness

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

  Joseph Haydn

  Communes

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• It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

  Edmond Jabes

  Creative, Certainty, Uncertainty

  Edmond Jabès (1977). “The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book”, Wesleyan

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• Without death there would be very little progress.

  Steve Jobs

  Progress, Would Be, Littles

  Computerworld's Oral History Project Interview, genius.com. 1995.

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• None of us are as creative as all of us.

  Steve Jobs

  Creative

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• There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident.

  Betty Comden

  Thinking, Creative, Trying

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• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Trust

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.9, Bantam

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• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

  Frank Capra

  Positive Thinking, Creative, Intuition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Hands, Creative

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• While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Death, Challenges

  "Cells". Book by John Byrum (p. 23), 1988.

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• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

  Alan Alda

  Life, Creative, Brave

  Alan Alda (2009). “Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself”, p.21, Random House

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• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Play, Imagination, Creative

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Bad Ass, Drug, Creative People

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• Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

  Dee Hock

  Creative, Mind, Positive Thoughts

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• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Confidence, Believe

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