Creative act Quotes

“The creative act is not pure.”

— Nadine Gordimer

Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.

— Charles Jeffries

“To tell the truth is a super avantguarde creative act”

— El Roto

“Getting sober is a radically creative act.”

— Meredith Bell

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

— Henri Matisse

Happiness is a continuous creative activity.

— Baba Amte

“Oftentimes, our hands are more creative than our minds.”

— John Joclebs Bassey

Questions are creative acts of intelligence.

— Francis Kingdon Ward

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

— Carl Jung

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

— Lawrence Halprin

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

— Michael Polanyi

It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual

— Jacob Bronowski

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

— Rollo May

“Love is a creative act. When you love someone, you create a world for them.”

— Trevor Noah

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

— Marcel Duchamp

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the…

— Saul Bass

Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Seeks to grow and improve oneself through creative activity, freely expressing one’s exuberant vitality, and through warm, supportive encouragement of others.

— Stephen Arroyo

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know…

— Etty Hillesum

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most…

— Rene Huyghe

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves…

— Asger Jorn

Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will…

— Twyla Tharp

reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will…

— Jeanette Winterson

“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they…

— Ian McEwan

“Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter,…

— Ram dass

“It doesn't matter if you are not 'good' at creative activity. You do not have to be 'good' at pushups before they…

— Neil Kirby

With such a small life, with such a small energy source, it is simply stupid to waste it in sadness, in anger,…

— Anonymous

With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that…

— Robert Greene

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of…

— Michael Leunig

'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and…

— Andy Summers

Separate out the creative act from the act of editing and execution. Make it a two-step process. First, let ideas flow and…

— Josh Linkner

“The basic recurring theme in Hindu mythology is the creation of the world by the self-sacrifice of God—"sacrifice" in the original sense…

— Fritjof Capra

Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on…

— Paul Brunton

“The assertion that only sex is power and the arrogation of creativity to the masculine sex and the rendering of all creativity…

— Somer Brodribb

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain…

— Robert Motherwell

“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Bell Protection Spell Bells protect against evil. Their ringing causes many malicious spirits to flee and they are thus a primary component…

— Judika Illes

“You did not do my homework assignment for me,” he said, grabbing the collage again and looking it over. “I had insomnia,”…

— Ree Drummond