Quotes about Creativity
The people who wrote down the Bible and the people who wrote down the Mahayana sutras were artists. They used images to express their insights.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
— Francine Rivers
Seriously, my heart is to just go forward as far as I can, making music that I love and seeing where the journey takes me.
— Lauren Daigle
The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
— Butch Trucks
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
— GK Chesterton
You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of selecting passages from the best writers in the world.
— GK Chesterton
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.
— GK Chesterton
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
— Brian Tracy
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
— Bruce Lee
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
— Bruce Lee
Do I sing? Oh, I'm indifferent enough, sir, for that; but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade, sir.
— Herman Melville