Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story, rife with character and plot.
William ShatnerIn Art man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath TagoreThe imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar WildeI can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
David Herbert LawrenceWhat is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath TagorePhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel AdamsYou ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert EinsteinAll creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy LamarrImagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert EinsteinReading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert EinsteinSince 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 CarverYou can't fake creativity, competence or sexual arousal.
Doug CouplandThe only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert EinsteinSculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
Gertrude SteinEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism, or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSo the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction and meaning.
Deepak ChopraThe secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert EinsteinTo raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert EinsteinEverything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDon'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 BradburyAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Elbert HubbardThe monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert EinsteinA creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOdd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia WoolfI believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
Ron WhiteIt is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric HofferI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
MichelangeloA dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Denis WaitleyMost people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Erich FrommIt is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyReason is a harmonising controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand RussellWe must use time creatively.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert EinsteinWords and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
Dr. SeussThink left and think right and think low and think high. Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. SeussWe are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions, rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen CoveyYou learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.
Herman HesseThe idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert HubbardWhoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
Herman HesseLiterature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Gertrude SteinTrue art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert EinsteinPeriods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
George SantayanaThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert EinsteinCollege isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen KellerEnlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology, but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight, and focused attention.
Deepak ChopraThen when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative or creative in their own way what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.
Lady GagaWe shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert EinsteinCreativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve JobsConversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar WildeThere is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore, there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William ShakespeareA work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar WildeI start drawing and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
Dr. SeussI'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.
Christina AguileraConsistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar WildeThe good old days when each idea had an owner are gone forever.
Paulo CoelhoI'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.
Henry RollinsThe creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John W. GardnerI cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein