We understand that you cant transform people who dont have internal drive and desire to create. But we also know it doesnt work to urge people to think outside the box without giving them the tools to climb out.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment a lightning instant of give-and-take just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cant get there by bus only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what youre doing. What youll discover will be wonderful. What youll discover will be yourself.
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution unless he can be even in his withdrawal creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of furfilment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that the right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.
He is a man of capacity who possesses considerable intellectual riches: while he is a man of genius who finds out a vein of new ore. Originality is the seeing nature differently from others and yet as it is in itself. It is not singularity or affectation but the discovery of new and valuable truth. All the world do not see the whole meaning of any object they have been looking at. Habit blinds them to some things: shortsightedness to others. Every mind is not a gauge and measure of truth. Nature has her surface and her dark recesses. She is deep obscure and infinite. It is only minds on whom she makes her fullest impressions that can penetrate her shrine or unveil her Holy of Holies. It is only those whom she has filled with her spirit that have the boldness or the power to reveal her mysteries to others.
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up all we have left is our importance.
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed it may be the most difficult task in the world for opening the door to your own life is in the end more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
We understand that you cant transform people who dont have internal drive and desire to create. But we also know it doesnt work to urge people to think outside the box without giving them the tools to climb out.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment a lightning instant of give-and-take just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Its hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. Its about experimenting and discovering.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.
A moment?s insight is sometimes worth a life?s experience.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cant get there by bus only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what youre doing. What youll discover will be wonderful. What youll discover will be yourself.
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution unless he can be even in his withdrawal creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of furfilment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Not pickt from the leaves of any author but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given a chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Im always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning…. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Creation is a drug I can?t do without.
Ideas are the root of creation.
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that the right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
He is a man of capacity who possesses considerable intellectual riches: while he is a man of genius who finds out a vein of new ore. Originality is the seeing nature differently from others and yet as it is in itself. It is not singularity or affectation but the discovery of new and valuable truth. All the world do not see the whole meaning of any object they have been looking at. Habit blinds them to some things: shortsightedness to others. Every mind is not a gauge and measure of truth. Nature has her surface and her dark recesses. She is deep obscure and infinite. It is only minds on whom she makes her fullest impressions that can penetrate her shrine or unveil her Holy of Holies. It is only those whom she has filled with her spirit that have the boldness or the power to reveal her mysteries to others.
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up all we have left is our importance.
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed it may be the most difficult task in the world for opening the door to your own life is in the end more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in gets shuffled about and comes out in new and interesting ways.
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
It is wise to learn; it is Godlike to create.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or doing it better.
Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity.