"Creativity
is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
-- Scott Adams
| 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 |  |
"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
 | “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 (384-322
BC) |
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
| 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 |
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
