Bright ideas Quote by Julia Cameron

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

— Julia Cameron

“Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.

— Otto Scharmer

Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity. It reminds…

— Fay Weldon

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can…

— Rollo May

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

— Erich Fromm

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with…

— Twyla Tharp

Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can…

— Rollo May

“True creative impulses are preceded by a sort of darkness.”

— Delphine de Vigan

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

— Michel de Montaigne

What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help…

— Alexi Murdoch

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

— Irvin D. Yalom