Quotes about Creativity

It's this concept of 'just fill up a building of smart people.' It sounds so basic, but honestly it might just be the secret behind Shopify's success. We just do that and get out of the way.

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.