Quotes about Creativity
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
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
— Ernest Hemingway
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
— Pablo Picasso