Quotes about Creativity
The impulse to do and revere art is an ancient need - whether on cave walls, on ones own body, a cathedral or religious rite, we hunger for a way to articulate who we are and what we mean.
- Toni Morrison
Struggling through the work is extremely important—more important to me than publishing it.
- Toni Morrison
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.
- Toni Morrison
What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
- Kesha
Imagination is biblical reasoning in its Sunday best, lost in wonder at the creativity of the Creator. Being
- Kevin Vanhoozer
Every time we demean ourselves we are talking badly about the Artist and the Model.
- Kris Vallotton
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
Without this playing with fantasy, no work has ever come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
- Cicero
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
- Anonymous
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
- Martin Luther