Quotes of: Creative-artist Keyword

Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of good mental health. Even those who don’t view peace of mind as a threat to their creative power often believe tha...

Rob Brezsny

I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age- which can only arise from th...

Mein Kampf

Given the freedom to create, everybody is creative. All of us have an innate, instinctive desire to change our environment, to put our original stamp on this world, to tell a story never told before. I’m absolutely thrilled at the moment of creativ...

Up Till Now

Sir Ken Robinson’s 2008 talk on educational reform—entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”—has now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children’s scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they ...

Ian Leslie

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions...

Studies in Classic American Literature

It takes an artist…. to be an artist

Sameh Elsayed

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Yoko Ono

Praise is the portal to the presence of God.

Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Ryan Lilly

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

John Zorn

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Kenneth Rexroth

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

Laurell K. Hamilton

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

Richard Stallman

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

Joel Hodgson

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.

Carmen Busquets

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

Timothy Noah

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Joichi Ito