“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a… — Joey Harrington Copy Share Image
If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is… — Mary Henle Copy Share Image
How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
“The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity. —Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate” — Diana Delonzor Copy Share Image
“Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: "… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
“(about William Blake) [Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think is God… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about… — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
The Grime guys have kind of rewritten the blueprint for people as far as creativity, songwriting, ownership, doing your own videos... So… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
“Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there… — Ethan Suplee Copy Share Image
A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
All things are reproductions, ideas are reproductions of original thought. In terms of the ultimate singularity, all things are nothingness. Reverse on… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives,… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant.… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
One of the great things about cartoons is that they're not real - you're not watching real people and it engages your… — Tim Daly Copy Share Image
If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the… — Bob DuPuy Copy Share Image
You know, 'Project Runway' was a really special show, and we had a great five seasons with it. We loved that show,… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to… — Hailey Gates Copy Share Image
I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit… — Christian Keiber Copy Share Image
Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation. — Teresa Amabile Copy Share Image
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“What is it that is whirling the mind? Imagination, creative activity. Stop creation and you know the truth. All power of creation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when there is no end… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
![“(about William Blake) [Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think is God is merely prudence, and the restrainer and inhibitor of energy, which results in fear and passivity and "imaginative death." And what we so often call "reason" and think is so fine, is…” quote by Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21d/brenda-ueland-3836_caution_about-william-blake-blake-said-most-of-u_3185108.png)
