"Creativity
is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing
which ones to keep."
-- Scott Adams
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The
creative spirit is one of the most powerful driving
forces in human history. Creativity in the arts
can inspire new insights and understanding for generations.
Inventive creativity has helped transform our society
time and time again, helping to make life better
for countless lives. Creativity helps bring meaning
to one's life through unique self-expression. When
focused on uplifting humanity, creativity can help
to create a more peaceful, just and sustainable
world. How will you use your creativity to help
create a better world?
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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"There's
room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious
if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like
somebody else, then there is isn't."
-- Tori Amos
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“In
today's climate in our country, which is sickened
with the pollution of pollution, threatened with
the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning
racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless,
we need art and we need art in all forms. We need
all methods of art to be present, everywhere present,
and all the time present.”
-- Maya
Angelou
"We
are all creative, but by the time we are three of
four years old, someone has knocked the creativity
out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start
to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but
someone will insist they sit still. By the time
the creative people are ten or twelve, they want
to be like everyone else."
-- Maya
Angelou
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The
aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance
of things, but their inward significance.
-- Aristotle
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The
man who follows the crowd will usually get no further
than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find
himself in places no one has ever been.
-- Alan Ashley-Pitt
The
moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most
wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary
or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that,
during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything
may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't,
matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
-- Monica Baldwin
Be
daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that
will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision
against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary.
-- Sir Cecil Beaton
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"Art
in its highest form is art that serves and instructs
society and human development."
-- Harry
Belafonte
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It
is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be
wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
-- Edward de Bono
"Don't
think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious,
and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to
do things. You simply must do things."
-- Ray Bradbury
Life
is "trying things to see if they work."
-- Ray Bradbury
A
new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a
yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried
to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
-- Charles Brower
"Creativity
comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope
more than you work."
-- Rita Mae Brown (American Writer, b.1944)
There
is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings;
but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
-- Edmund Burke
"Creativity
- like human life itself - begins in darkness."
-- Julia Cameron
Creativity
is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting
of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the
blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
-- Julia Cameron
In
order to have a real relationship with our creativity,
we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
-- Julia Cameron
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"A
hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
-- Frank
Capra
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Since
new developments are the products of a creative
mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage
that type of mind in every way possible.
- George
Washington Carver
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Music
is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things
to the heart.
-- Pablo
Casals
Music
will save the world.
-- Pablo
Casals
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"The
more you reason the less you create"
-- Raymond Chandler
The
principle of using interactivity as a creativity-builder
is not restricted to computer games. Once we become fully
conscious of this principle, we can find ways to become
more interactive everywhere. We can make conversations
with our family and friends more interactive than they
once were. The more thoughtful our questions get to be,
the more interactive the conversations
--Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
All
riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -
not money.
-- Robert Collier
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I
think people who are creative are the luckiest people
on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but
you must keep your faith in something Greater than
You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love,
and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
-- Judy
Collins
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Creativity
is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking
rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
-- Mary Lou Cook
Creativity
is a central source of meaning in our lives... [and] when
we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more
fully than during the rest of life.
--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
There
is no doubt that creativity is the most important human
resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no
progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns."
-- Edward de Bono
Minds
are like parachutes: they only function when open.
-- Thomas R. Dewar
"Creativity
is the ability to see relationships where none exist."
-- Thomas Disch
We
are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of
circumstance.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
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Imagination
is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert
Einstein
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The
intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational
mind is a faithful servant. We have created a
society that honors the servant and has forgotten
the gift.
-- Albert
Einstein
"Problems
cannot be solved by the same level of thinking
that created them."
-- Albert
Einstein
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The
arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head,
the personal to the political.
-- Scilla
Elworthy |
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There
are no days in life so memorable as those which
vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
"Creative
thinking may mean simply the realization that there's
no particular virtue in doing things the way they always
have been done"
-- Rudolf Flesch
Creativity
requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm
"Conditions
for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to
accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to
feel a sense of self."
-- Erich Fromm
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People
should think things out fresh and not just accept
conventional terms and the conventional way of
doing things.
-- R.
Buckminster Fuller
When
I am working on a problem I never think about
beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem.
But when I have finished, if the solution is not
beautiful, I know it is wrong.
--
R.
Buckminster Fuller
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When
Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether
he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes
replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some
day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until
then, one of the best things we can do for creative
men and women is to stand out of their light.
-- John W. Gardner (1912 - )
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger
than the brain cell it occupied.
-- Arnold Glascow
“The
most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire
someone else to be creative.”
-
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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"In
a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes
a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important
— and often more profitable — than to be civil or
creative or truly original.’’
~ Al
Gore |
Concern
over criticism clogs creativity.
-- Duane Alan Hahn
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"The
arts have always served relationships between
people of different cultures so well. In a way,
the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
-- Herbie
Hancock
Creativity
and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes
far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
-- Herbie
Hancock
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If
we are to change our world view, images have to
change. The artist now has a very important job
to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining
rich people, he's really needed.
-- Vaclav
Havel |
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The
problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts
into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind
is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out
a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly
fill it.
-- Dee Hock
Man's
mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its
original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
An
invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea
whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
There
is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world,
and that is an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
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"The
power of art can break the shackles that bind
and divide human beings."
-- Daisaku
Ikeda
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Genius
means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an
unhabitual way.
-- William James
A
truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed
limitations.
-- Gerald G. Jampolsky
The
creation of something new is not accomplished by the
intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner
necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects
it loves.
-- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
"But,
if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps
you create yourself."
-- Carl Gustav Jung quotes (Swiss psychiatrist,1 875-1961)
"Creativity
is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope.
You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone
else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits
and pieces into an enticing new possibility."
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Creativity,
as has been said, consists largely of rearranging
what we know in order to find out what we do not know.
Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look
afresh at what we normally take for granted.
-- George Kneller
Creative
activity could be described as a type of learning
process where teacher and pupil are located in the
same individual.
-- Arthur Koestler
The
more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems
afterwards.
-- Arthur Koestler
The
essential part of creativity is not being afraid to
fail.
-- Edwin H. Land
Creativity
is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edwin H. Land
The
creative adult is the child who has survived."
-- Ursula K. le Guin
It
is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception
and compassion and hope.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
Creativity
is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new
things.
--Theodore Levitt
When
all think alike, then no one is thinking.
-- Walter Lippman
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New
opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed,
without anyother reason but because they are
not already common.
-- John
Locke
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Creativity
can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the
defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
-- George Lois
"There
is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents,
the creativity you bring to your life and the lives
of people you love. When you learn to tap this source,
you will truly have defeated age."
-- Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)
Creativity
is not the finding of a thing, but the making something
out of it after it is found.
-- James Russell Lowell
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Music
has always been transnational;
-- Yo-Yo
Ma
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will finds a way.
-- Orison Swett Marden
"Creativity
takes courage."
-- Henri Matisse
Creativity
arises out of the tension between spontaneity and
limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing
the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential
to the work of art or poem.
-- Rollo May
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“We
need artists to help us come together and share
our voices and build community around powerful
issues concerning our roles in the world and our
planet’s survival. Compassion must be translated
into action.”
-- Natasha
Mayers |
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The
world leaders in innovation and creativity will also
be world leaders in everything else.
-- Harold R. McAlindon
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"I've
always felt that music finds its natural place
within people and should not be restricted to
a specific physical place. It is vital that today's
musicians become proactive in advocating for music
and the arts."
-- Midori
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"Making
the simple complicated is commonplace; making the
complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
--Charles Mingus
You
share things with people and I think information,
and art, and ideas should be shared.
-- Michael
Moore |
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If
there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't
been written yet, then you must write it.
-- Toni Morrison
The
most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
-- Stephen Nachmanovitch
"Creativity
is a natural extension of our enthusiasm"
-- Earl Nightingale (US motivational writer, 1921-1989)
If
you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the
merits of alternative approaches—and will probably
miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great
pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished
idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What
part of your idea are you in love with? What would
happen if you kissed it goodbye?
-- Roger von Oech
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The
best way to have a good idea is to have lots
of ideas.
-- Linus
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To
live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being
wrong.
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce
"The
principle goal of education is to create men who
are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating
what other generations have done - men who are creative,
inventive and discoverers"
-- Jean Piaget (Swiss Psychologist and pioneer in
the study of child intelligence, 1896-1980)
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"The
chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
-- Pablo
Picasso
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"Creativity
is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
-- William Plomer
Creativity
represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited
energy of the child with its apparent opposite and
enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined
adult intelligence.
-- Norman Podhoretz
They
will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your
own.
-- Antonio Porchia
"Another
word for creativity is courage"
-- George Prince
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"Art
is not just to show life as it is, but to
show life as it should be. "
-- Paul
Robeson
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Happiness
is not in the mere possession of money; it lies
in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of
creative effort.
-- Franklin
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It
is the tension between creativity and skepticism
that has produced the stunning and unexpected
findings of science.
-- Carl
Sagan
"Imagination
will often carry us to worlds that never were.
But without it we go nowhere." Carl Sagan
-- Carl
Sagan
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"Necessity
is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father
is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife"
-- Jonathan Schattke
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You
imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
and at last you create what you will."
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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"Creativity
can be described as letting go of certainties"
-- Gail Sheehy
"The
arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing
the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes
courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is
what we all need to create a better world."
-- Wanye Shorter
The
life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled
by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important
purposes.
-- Saul Steinberg
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I
think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure
of writing jokes about things that I actually
care about.
-- Jon
Stewart
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The
world is but a canvas to the imagination.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
It
is the marriage of the soul with Nature that
makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth
to imagination.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
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Artistic
creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls
in the depths of the mind.
-- Robert Toth
"Sometimes
you've got to let everything go - purge yourself.
If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is
bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find
that when you're free, your true creativity, your
true self comes out."
-- Tina Turner
Any
activity becomes creative when the doer cares about
doing it right, or doing it better.
-- John Updike
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Helped
are those who create anything at all, for they
shall relive the thrill of their own conception
and realize a partnership in the creation of
the Universe that keeps them responsible and
cheerful.
~Alice
Walker
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"Sometimes
you gotta create what you want to be a part of."
-- Geri Weitzman
The
things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations,
disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources
of creativity.
-- Margaret
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Consistency
is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
-- Oscar Wilde
"The
imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that
creates."
-- Oscar Wilde
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When
you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why
do you think Einstein looked like that?
-- Robin
Williams |
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If
we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without
soul, life ceases to have meaning. The creative process
shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with
the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth
living.
-- Marion Woodman
Odd
how the creative power at once brings the whole universe
to order.
-- Virginia Woolf
It
is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the
creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning
a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes
on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes
resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense
of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
-- Virginia Woolf
"Art
amplifies voices on the margins—the views and opinions
that power silences."
-- Will Youmans
