“One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.” IfsReasonUseTurnsEnergyForceCreativityPowerCreativePsychologyTalentPossibilityHigherDiseasePoisonWickedDestructiveLazinessSheerGiftedPsychicsInactionDiagnosisNeurosisPsychoticCreative PowerCreativenessInactivityGiftedness Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
“I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.” IfsThinkingWayWantDreamActionCreativityCreativeComfortableDetailsMy WayUnwillingHallucinationsJust A DreamThinking Things Through Author:Aubrey McClendon
“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsYearsBelieveChildrenPlayRunningFallFearLosesEnemyCreativityMillionsLaughingRiskLetting GoCapableDrawsGainsNineGet UpBehaveWillingnessFearfulFreezePlaygroundsNine YearsGood BusinessChildren Playing Author:Faith Ringgold
“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.” IfsRealityArtistProcessNaturalAbilityCreativityCreativePossibilityPaintingSucceedElementsCreatingConsciousIndependentCreative ProcessTransformingHintsNatural Phenomena Author:Frantisek Kupka
“Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.” IfsNeedsLongRunningSpiritPassionAnimalCreativityRiskFedsStarving Author:Nancy Lam
“Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.” IfsGivingWellsAnswersCreativityDesignUnique Author:Kenya Hara
“A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?” IfsBeautifulCreativityExpressionPhotographyPhotographerImpressionPhotography And Light Author:Ernst Haas
“Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.” IfsMemoriesTeachCreativityEssentialsWasteWasting Time Author:Tony Buzan
“I'm interested in doing anything and everything that I can to squeeze the creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm kind of a performance rat, that's what I want to do, I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. I just love putting creativity into a performance.” IfsWantKindI CanLove IsBrainCreativityStagePerformancesRatsAnything And Everything Author:Dane Cook
“Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.” IfsBelieveHumansFacesJoyI BelieveHuman BeingsExistenceCreativityDespairAnxietyI Believe InHuman Existence Author:Rollo May
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.” IfsMindDoeIdeasMomentsSeemsNextBrainWonderCreativityWorryFocusDangerInspireGoes OnTragedyTheaterSafetyTradeAncientInsightSensesTricksCraftsTriumphAnalysisBagsElitesFloatsRapidsParticlesFear Of DeathFilesGambleHunchesInspire CreativityFugueAutopilotTragedy And Triumph Author:Diane Ackerman
“I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindHappensWonderCreativityKnow HowSeeingInspiredThings Happen Author:Wiz Khalifa
“I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.” PeopleIfsFeelsArtArtistCreativityMusicianControversyControversialArt And CreativityArtisans Author:Yoko Ono
“All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.” IfsPersonsCreativityEventsRainWelcomeRejectionSunshineDeficiencyFertilityNegationManure Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.” IfsWritingPersonsMotivationalCreativityLearningAssumingGrantedIncapableLiteracy Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.” IfsNeedsHumansKindArtSpiritCreativityObjectsFineExerciseUnderstoodArt IsConcernAbsolutesProductionsCraftsDivisionRequirementsFine ArtsRepercussionsHuman NeedsIndirectCraftsman Author:Jacques Maritain
“If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.” IfsTryingCreativityPositionBandPopsGenrePop Bands Author:Adam Anderson
“I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It's going to resonate.” IfsThinkingMatterHelpingCreativityMeditationExpressionPureNo Matter WhatShiningMediums Author:Rainn Wilson
“Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.” IfsThinkingWorldBelieveCreativityExpressionPocketsPensPlasticArtistryAccountantsProtector Author:Rainn Wilson
“If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.” PeopleIfsWayTryingPersonsActionCreativityMinutesGratitudeDespairTreatsStrategyEach DayOur RelationshipCompoundsOne MinuteAmazing Person Author:James Altucher
“I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.” IfsKindArtBigsWonderCreativityUniversalBiggerBig ThingsMorphing Author:Douglas Coupland
“How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.” IfsFeelsShouldFeelingsFeltFearPowerfulEmotionCreativityCreativePiecesHealthHealthyNegativeHappyFeel GoodCakeCompassionateKnowledgeableNegative Emotions Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.” PeopleIfsArtSpiritualArtistTermMoralCreativityCreationShapesIdealsCoreRealmsBroadsIdealismDefining Book:Essential Turgenev Source: Essential Turgenev
“You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story - not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.” IfsWorldFeelsHas BeensDifferentStoriesBodyValuesCreativityFocusSubjectsYour BodyPositivelyGreat Value Author:Esther Hicks
“If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.” IfsFeelsJoyStuffGrowthCareersCreativitySubjectsCreationCreatingIntentionCreatorMissionsLife ExperienceQuestsJoyfulDominantAlignmentJoyful LifeTriads Author:Esther Hicks
“If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.” IfsMenCreativityCreatingUnderstoodBeing Different Author:Esther Hicks
“You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.” IfsGivingChildrenFeelingsTogetherJoyReadingSportsWalksPleasureMistakeCreativityExampleListeningComfortResourcesCookingWoodsListening To MusicAvenuesParticipatingClosenessKindlesWalk In The WoodsOld Feelings Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl
“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.” PeopleIfsWorldLittlesImportantJobsArtistViewsCreativityRichHonestyFiguresHeroNeededOur WorldEntertainingCitizenshipRich PeopleWorld ViewImportant Jobs Author:Vaclav Havel
“Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.” IfsLoveEnjoyWorkCreativityTalentExpressionEnthusiasmSomething You Love Author:Laurence Boldt
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.” IfsSaidIdeasCultureGivenWorkSituationCreativityInnovationVictimRepresentativesPeer Pressure Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.” PeopleIfsProblemMovingWinningCausesLeadershipPrinciplesCreativitySkillsSticksNotionConservativeSolveEnormousRejectsConsensusNeedlesLeadership SkillsGridlock Author:Jeb Bush
“This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.” IfsHumanityCommunityCreativityShareFashionFieldsInternationalRacistPalestinianRemarksInternational Community Author:Riyad Mansour
“Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.” PeopleIfsDoePastArtistCreativityWalkingGood ThingsInspiredScaredReally GreatBeing ScaredPeople From The Past Author:Lawrence Bender
“What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.” IfsMayRealInspirationCreativityDrawsFilmmakerGutsArrogant Author:Lawrence Bender
“A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.” IfsWantBigsAsksCreativityRecordsOur LivesStreetsGrewDrugGrew UpNotesStudiosSellingRapperSelling Drugs Author:Nicki Minaj
“No matter how much you try and make your surroundings suitable for creativity, if the enviornment inside of you isn't creatively healthy then you won't be able to make the art you want. Being in tune with yourself and your inner truth, being at peace in there, is the best way to nurture your creativity. Then you can even make a bad enviornment a good one.” IfsWayWantTryingArtMatterAbleCreativityHealthyTruth IsBest WayTunesNurtureSurroundingsSuitableBeing At Peace Author:Gerard Way
“Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you truly love for the right reasons. Never ask your art to support you. If you ask your art to support you it will either end up comprised or you'll be disappointed with it. It's a lot to ask of creativity for it to provide for you financially. Find a scrappy way to get by and then do the work you love for the reasons you love.” IfsWayArtEndsReasonAsksCan DoCreativitySupportDebtDisappointedSupport YouWork You Love Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.” IfsKnowsNeedsHeartBodyJoyLosesLossCreativityDependsNourishmentPhysical Body Author:Richard Bach
“I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it."” IfsThinkingWayCreativityWonderfulMinesExpression Author:Richard Bach
“I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.” IfsBelieveMayDifferentPlayFeelingsSoundCreativityExpressionTypePicksInstrumentsBlockWriter's Block Author:Saul Williams
“I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.” IfsThinkingWorldFeelsStillsWould BeProcessTermCreativityReflectionDivorceEngagedSomething New Author:Antony Hegarty
“If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.” PeopleIfsMenHumansMeanHas BeensArtYoungImaginationCreativityDrugDrawsLeavingMeaningfulGangMen WomenMeaningful LifeImagination And CreativityTrue EducationHope Love Author:Luis J. Rodriguez
“One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs when people pull out of the whole selectivity issue. Becoming celibate - obviously you couldn't be less selective that that. Yes, selection is always in the background. But it's not always there in the foreground. If you don't understand that, you're missing a lot.” PeopleIfsImportantWholeReligiousCreativityIssuesMissingBecomingImportant ThingsBackgroundsSpheresProtectedSelectionSelectiveForeground Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.” IfsThinkingGivingMeanFeelingsDreamEyeCan DoCreativityPhotographyMusicianPhotographerPainterAtmosphereWithin YouOpen Eyes Author:Ernst Haas
“I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.” IfsThinkingHappensCreativityFantasyWorstIntuitionFilmmaking Author:Werner Herzog
“If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.” IfsWantNeedsLittlesCompanyCreativitySandPearlsOystersContamination Author:Fred Wilson
“I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.” IfsThinkingWritingHumansWellsSelfEyeConsciousnessEnemyCreativityCreativeMirrorsEditorsPublishingCreative WritingMarketplaceDoing YouSelf Consciousness Author:Andre Dubus
“I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.” IfsThinkingUseAsksCan DoWonderCreativityComputerCapacityRemarkableCapabilityFractionsPersonal Computers Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher
“I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.” IfsThinkingWritingHumansSelfConsciousnessEnemyCreativityCreativeCreative WritingSelf Consciousness Author:Andre Dubus
“Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence of artistic expression is invention and artists necessarily draw on their own experience. But if the rules of liability are unclear, artists will not be able to know how much disguise is sufficient to protect their claims from the claims of those who may see themselves in the portrayals.” IfsKnowsMayAbleArtistResponsibilityCreativityKnow HowExpressionProtectSpeechDrawsEssenceConstitutionClaimsProtectionInventionArtisticSufficientDisguiseLiabilityArtistic ExpressionPortrayalUnclear Author:Irving Kaufman