You were placed on this earth ...

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

~Dr. Robert Anthony~

There is no greater joy than t...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

~Henri Bergson~

The legs are the wheels of cre...

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

~Albert Einstein~

The desire to create continual...

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche~

The creative person wants to b...

The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.

~Carl Ally~

Our current obsession with cre...

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

~Arianna Stassinopoulos~

Our current obsession with cre...

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

~Arianna Stassinopoulos~

No matter how old you get, if ...

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

~John Cassavetes~

Many times we will get more id...

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

~Wilfred Peterson~

Had I been present at the crea...

Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

~Alfonso X~

It seems that the creative fac...

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

~Thomas Babington Macaulay~

In creating, the only hard thi...

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

~James Russell Lowell~

If you are seeking creative id...

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

~Raymond Inman~

Ideally a painter (and, genera...

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

~Rainer Maria Rilke~

I understood that all the mate...

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

~Marcel Proust~

I saw an angel in the block of...

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

~Michelangelo~

God is in the world, or nowher...

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....

~Alfred North Whitehead~

Every moment of your life is i...

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. )ust put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to you.

~Shakti Gawain~

Creativity is a central source...

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi~

Creativeness often consists of...

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

~Bernice Fitz-Gibbon~