Creative Quotes

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The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. — Tibor Kalman
Creativity is a continual surprise. — Ray Bradbury
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. — Germaine Greer
God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes. — Joel Osteen
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. — Kurt Vonnegut
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing… — Robert A. Heinlein
True alchemy lies in this formula: â€˜Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulseâ€™. — Arthur Rimbaud
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the… — Piers Anthony
...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the… — Bill Cosby
A creative mess is better than idle tidiness. — Michael J. Fox
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. — Deepak Chopra
I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes… — Melissa Marr
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. — Ayn Rand
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. — Rollo May
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of… — Carl Sandburg
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren

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