“Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.”
“Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.”
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.”
“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.”
“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”
“We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.”
“It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.”
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
“We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.”
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
“It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.”
“The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.”
“Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.”
“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
“The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.”
“Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.”
“It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.”
“Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.”
“Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.”
“Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.”
“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”
“The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.”
“Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.”
“The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.”
“The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
“All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.”