Creative Impulse Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with…
— Ray Manzarek
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From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source…
— Carl Jung
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With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.
— Deepak Chopra
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There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
— Fred Ward
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Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.
— Saul Bass
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the…
— Ansel Adams
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In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is…
— Robert Fripp
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Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which…
— Polykarp Kusch
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It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
— Max Nordau
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There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
— Eric Hoffer
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The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an…
— Bertrand Russell
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If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.
— Deepak Chopra
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Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them…
— Jose Clemente Orozco
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Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the…
— Robert Gordis
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When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to…
— Josh Gad
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You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.
— Kimon Nicolaides
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died…
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do…
— Patti Smith
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Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it…
— John F. Kennedy
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Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Who Wrote These Creative Impulse Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Creative Impulse Quotes as follows: