We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness. — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.” — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and… — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“There’s a friend at the end of your pen which you can use to help you solve personal or business problems, get… — Kathleen Adams Copy Share Image
“calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved. Anyone can apply, but the price of admission is paid in imagination. As… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The qualities I look for in planners or creatives is very much the same thing. Beyond the givens of talent and work… — David Droga Copy Share Image
I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole… — Juliet Landau Copy Share Image
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity. — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks… — Bre Pettis Copy Share Image
“Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God’s original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration,… — Francois Du Toit Copy Share Image
It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said It was the dream itself enchanted me ("The Circus Animal's Desertion")” — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I could care less about popularity. I live through reality. I base myself on originality. Forget about looks. I respect personality. — Lucas Hunter Copy Share Image
I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“The only differences between people who think they are creative and people who think they are not are their beliefs about their… — Sanaya Roman Copy Share Image
With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my… — Markus Persson Copy Share Image
Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image