Creativity Quotes

"Always be a poet, even in prose" "Beauty awakens the soul to act" "The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself" "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work" "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties" "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers" "Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe" "Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work" "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." "The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done" "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do" "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." "Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom." "Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of." "If we can come up with innovative and creative solutions, we can indeed survive and we can thrive" "Literature is fire" "I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me" "I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face"