Creative Quotes And Sayings

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“Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.”
– James Bertrand

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
– James Whistler

“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.”
– Jean Piaget

“Without freedom, there is no creation.”
– JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

“If you’ve got a talent, protect it.
– Jim Carrey

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
– Jim Rohn

“I think an artist’s responsibility is more complex than people realize.
– Jodie Foster

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
– John Cage

“We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode. Not that the closed mode cannot be helpful. If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies. When you charge the enemy machine-gun post, don’t waste energy trying to see the funny side of it. Do it in the “closed” mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the “open” mode—to open your mind again to all the feedback from our action that enables us to tell whether the action has been successful, or whether further action is need to improve on what we have done. In other words, we must return to the open mode, because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.”
– John Cleese

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
– John Maynard Keynes

“When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: “Only stand out of my light.” Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.”
– John W. Gardner

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
– Jonh Steinbeck

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
– Joseph Chilton Pierce

“We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
– JULIA CAMERON

“An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.”
– Julia Cameron

“Artists know that there is no creativity without a system of formal restraints.”
– KATHY GALLOWAY

“Creativity of all kinds, in art, in prayer, in justice-making, in human relationships, is born where people wrestle with angels, outside Eden, on the border between heaven and earth, where they struggle to create a new form, a new song, a new template, a new ethic with all the discipline and passion they can bring to bear.
– KATHY GALLOWAY

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people”
– Leo Burnett

“There is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
– Lewis Carroll

“Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn’t written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn’t in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.”
– Lincoln Steffens

“When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.”
– Linda Naiman

“Where observation is concerned, chance favors the prepared mind.”
– Louis Pasteur

“To be creative you have to contribute something different from what you’ve done before. Your results need not be original to the world; few results truly meet that criterion. In fact, most results are built on the work of others.”
– Lynne C. Levesque

“There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.” 
– Martha Graham

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
– Mary Lou Cook

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou

“Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart.”
– Mencius

“Creativity is… seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.”
– Michele Shea

“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star”
– Nietzsche

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