Quotes about Creativity

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Dreams are necessary to life.

I may be weird, but creative wise I have the knowledge to know and believe in my heart that my weirdness makes me unique. It is also in my so called weird that I am also able to know the difference and then stop my complaining and go out and make something somebody has never seen before. I was just ahead of my time that was what that was. xD !

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.