Quotes of: Creative-expression Keyword

The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.

Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World

When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own.

A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

Indomitable Spirit

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

Luna Sea’s music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy.

Jrock, Ink.: A Concise Report on 40 of the Biggest Rock Acts in Japan

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Killosophy

Choose to not worry at all, freeing your creative mind and spirit to solve your problems.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

We all are creative by nature, but our creativity gets buried deep under the pressure of our day to day mad rush.

Open The Windows: To the World aound You

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

Kate Bush

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.

Nic Pizzolatto

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

Katherine Dunham

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Karl Lagerfeld