Quotes about Creativity

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs

We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you—and His experiments always succeed. The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.