Creativity

• You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you. Gordon MacKenzie
• You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
• I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein
• Language is the Trojan Horse by which the universe gets into the mind. Hugh Kenner
• I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington
• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso
• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes. Peter Doestenbaum
• There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. Martha Graham
• If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
• All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination. Ruth Ross
• Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey
• The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent Van Gogh
• Humor and creativity are kissing cousins. If you want to develop your sense of humor, invite more creativity into your life--and vice versa. In the presence of humor, new creative perspectives naturally occur. You can't stop them. Joel Goodman
• Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work. James Ogilvy
• All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities. Claes Oldenburg
• True creativity often starts where language ends. Arthur Koestler
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
• As you begin to nourish creativity in one area of your life, it begins to flourish in other areas. C. Diane Ealy, Ph.D.
• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe