Creativity Quotes - Page 8

• The creative adult is the child who has survived.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Imagination, Creative

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

  Julia Cameron

  Block, Flower, Imagination

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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• You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

  Patty Duke

  Depression, Bipolar, Manic

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• The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Children, Imagination, Vision

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.47, Penguin

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• The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Mind, Use

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• The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

  Noto

  Matter, Logic, Artistic

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• My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

  Holly Near

  Responsibility, Work Out, Political

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• Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

  William Pollard

  Opportunity, Innovation, Growth

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• Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

  Tommy Shaw

  Fickle

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• Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace.

  David Lynch

  Fun, Ocean, Infinite Intelligence

  "The Visionary". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

  Doreen Virtue

  Reflection, Quality, And Love

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2016

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• The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

  Julia Cameron

  Healing, Heart, Unions

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from May 28, 2014

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• Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Positive, Truth, Heart

  Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.21, Harmony

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• To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Breaking Rules, Study

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• Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

  Meryl Streep

  Kids, Impact, Creative

  "Meryl Streep on "Marvin's Room"". Interview with Henri Béhar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

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• In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Taken, Men

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Mean, People

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• Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

  Joseph Badaracco

  Mean, Helping Others, Different

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• Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection

  Seth Godin

  Art, Stars, Powerful

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• Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

  E. B. White

  Beauty, Powerful, Creative

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• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Creative

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• American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

  Cornel West

  Creative, Priorities, Black

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• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Perfect, Chinese

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• We have to trust these feelings. We have to trust the invisible gauges we carry within us. We have to realize that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Believe, Giving, Creative

  "Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person".

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• The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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