Quotes about Creativity

Search constantly for people, places, things, pictures, sounds, or scents that inspire you. Your most important responsibility is to keep yourself inspired always.

If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.

Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

Blessed are the dreamers, and cursed be the man who opens their eyes. True, the dreamers cannot save us, neither they nor their disciples, but without dreams and without dreamers the curse that lies upon us would be seven times heavier. Thanks to the dreamers, maybe we who are awake are a little less ossified and desperate than we would be without them.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.

Amidst your Ardor for Greek and Latin I hope you will not forget your mother Tongue. Read Somewhat in the English Poets every day. . . . You will never be alone, with a Poet in your Poket. You will never have an idle Hour.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.