Best Creative Quotes

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The best revenge is the massive success.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

Most writers – poets in especial – prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy – an ecstatic intuition – and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I’m kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don’t support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you’re living in the Midwest studying creative writing?

What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65… and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon… They become our legendary heroes.

I’m a bit of a night owl because that’s when I feel the most creative and alive.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it’s a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

I didn’t originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home in space whatsoever. That is, light occupies no volume and has no mass. The similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep. Both are born in a region beyond space and time where nature controls all processes in that void which is full of creative intelligence.

When you expand your awareness, your energy flows freely. You’re more flexible, balanced, and creative. You view yourself and the world with more compassion and understanding. You have more energy and are open to new possibilities.