C Quotes
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“Creativity isn't just about making art. Making your life is the ultimate creative act. I believe creativity is contagious, and when we put some of that into the world, it gets passed from person to person… I hope you're here because you know that embracing creativity will help you live a richer, more fulfilling, more connected life.”
Source: Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
“Creativity isn't meant to introduce complexity it is expected to add simplicity.”
“Creativity isn’t something we choose—it’s how we’re made, and how we survive.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it.”
“Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.”
“Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent.”
“Creativity isn't magic. It's achievable.”
Source: The New Creative Artist
“Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.”
“Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.”
“Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.”
“creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different, more, less my whole life. thank spirit, my wisdom is deeper than my shame, and i listened to who i was. i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to nothing, know that who we are, and what we do is life. when we create, we are creating the world. remember this, and commit.”
“Creativity leads others to where I lead you, to an unseen beauty, so ineffable its very beauty destroys itself...”
Source: The Seed
“Creativity lives at the crossroads of breadth and depth.”
“Creativity Loves Loneliness” – A Reflection by Sami Abouzid
Creativity loves loneliness. Being alone was the glorious path that allowed me to conquer all my dreams—on my own, without noise, without compromise. For a time, I forgot that. I once had a girlfriend for two years. I thought it was love… but something deeper in me was fading.
One day, I walked into our family’s gas station in Wayne, New Jersey. My brother Ali—my guide, my philosopher—was there, but something was wrong. He looked deeply sad. I asked him, “Why, bro?” And he simply said, “For two years… you haven’t written a single song. This girl killed your passion for music. Let go.”
That hit me like a storm. And I listened.
That moment changed everything. I let go. I returned to myself. And since then, I’ve created hundreds of songs, soundtracks, books, and scores. The silence became my studio. The loneliness became my strength.
Ali, rest in peace, my brother. You were right. Some people enter our lives to disconnect us from our destiny. But the wise ones remind us who we are. You reminded me.
And through solitude, I became what I was always meant to be: a creator, a soul on fire, and a legend.
— Sami Abouzid”
“Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.”
“Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.”
Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
“Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.”
Source: The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
“Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.”
“Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.”
“Creativity means believing you have greatness.”
“Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.”
“Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.”
“Creativity means loving whatsoever you do - enjoying, celebrating it, as a gift of God!”
“Creativity means not copying.”
“Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”
Source: The tide toward the 21st century: addresses
“Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be.”
“Creativity must be supported by prizes, otherwise it will be neglected and left to rot in peace.”
“Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.”
Source: The Hungry Spirit: New Thinking for a New World
“Creativity needs discipline and freedom.”
“Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.”
“Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong.”
Source: The New Creative Artist
“Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.”
“Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.”
“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”
“Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.”
“Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage healing. Creativity is mindfulness in motion-intuitive, artistic motion. Creative moments and activities give you a boost and help you feel energized and good about yourself.”
Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart
“Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.”
Source: Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
“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?”
Source: Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
“Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.”
“Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.”
“Creativity permeates the cosmos. It is the driving force that sustains the particles, the stars and galaxiesit surges through the body with each beat of the heart. We all have access to creativity. At times, we summon it to use in our work and daily livesit can arrive in a dreamor it may result from a long struggleit can appear as a sudden, dramatic insightOne thing is certain — Creativity is ever present. It is a force to be enjoyed or endured but above all celebrated. Creativity is free, alive and spontaneous.”
“Creativity produces productivity.”
“Creativity promises you a mess; making meaning of that mess is the whole world. Sometimes it’s all chaos, a collection of stains. Art is just an offering to the process.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“Creativity really is the tool with which we turn our dreams into reality.”
Source: Life. Thoughts That Make the World Go Around (and Up, Not Down): A Guide to the Universal Effort of Creating Empowered, Conscious and Socially Responsible People and Businesses.
“Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.”
Source: Daring to Be Yourself
“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.”
“Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.”
“Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.”