Creativity Quotes - Page 20

• I do not seek. I find.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Science

  Pablo Picasso, Neil Kroetsch, Gérard Régnier, Jeffrey S. Moore, Musée Picasso (Paris, France) (1992). “The Body on the cross”, Réunion des musées nationaux ; [Montréal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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• Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

  Robert Genn

  Real, Imagination, Spirit

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.64, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Lying, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.627, Wordsworth Editions

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• Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Iron, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.137, Penguin

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• Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

  Alfred Adler

  Real, Blessing, People

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• If you've got a talent, protect it.

  Jim Carrey

  Motivational, Creative, Positive Thoughts

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• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

  Pablo Casals

  Music, Beautiful, Heart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sad, Business, Lying

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  "The true spiritual leader of Iran is Rumi" by Melody Moezzi, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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• I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

  Brenda Ueland

  Inspiration, Creating, Giving

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't make art, you find it

  Pablo Picasso

  Art

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• Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Happiness, Entrepreneur, Preparation

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Creative, Doorways

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Nov 09, 2011

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• The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

  Edward de Bono

  Powerful, Taken, Simple

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

  Jack Welch

  Motivational, Positive, Work

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• Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Memories, Innovation, Littles

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.7

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• Without freedom, there is no creation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Imagination, Creative, Innovation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, p.376, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

  Julia Cameron

  Order, Creative, Energy

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from May 29, 2016

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• Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

  John Daido Loori

  Thinking, Talking, Being Human

  John Daido Loori (2007). “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life”, p.1, Ballantine Books

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• All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Artist, People

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you're plugged in, a spontaneous combustion occurs that 'artists' don't have a monopoly on.

  Judith Orloff

  Mother, Artist, Self

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.192, Harmony

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• Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

  Rajneesh

  Creating, Needs, Idiot

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• Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

  Ken Robinson

  Innovation, Definitions, Introducing

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Entrepreneur, Experience, Unexpected

  "The Corporate Board", Vol. 13, published by Vanguard Publications, p. 30, 1992.

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• Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them.

  Peter Saville

  Work, Believe, Expression

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