creativity

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

Robert Anthony

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends
to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

unattributed

A cup is useful only when it is empty;
and a mind that is filled with beliefs,
with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations
is really an uncreative mind.

J. Krishnamurti

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 merely
turning up what is already there.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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

John Cassavetes

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

Wilferd A. Peterson

If you are seeking creative
ideas, go out walking. Angels
whisper to us when we go for walks.

Raymond Inman

The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter
to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are
opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative
fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we
strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the
Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to
God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us
to live in creative abundance.

Julia Cameron

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I decided to start anew—to strip away what I had been taught, to accept
as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was
no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything
about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own,
unknown—no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and
decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted
to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

Georgia O’Keefe

I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Henri Matisse

I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man.
I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him
that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said,
“You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well,
but somehow you are different.” “Ah,” he said, “I don’t think you
should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers.”

Andrew Wyeth

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner
vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting
what he or she thinks should be there, not quite pulling
it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again,
each time finding out what this painting isn’t, until he or
she finally finds out what it is. And when you finally
do find out what one corner of your vision is, you’re off and running.

Anne Lamott

I learned.. . that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic,
energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly
and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it
a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate.
The root meaning of the word art is to fit together and we all do this
every day. . . . Each time we fit things together we are creating--whether
it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Corita Kent and Jan Steward

Creation, after all, is only play.	Your expression in all its forms is the dance of creation.
Stephen C. Paul

Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness.
And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain.
The brain is a receiver, not a source.

Candace Pert

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.
The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong,
but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes de Mille

Creativity requires the courage
to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative
is the place where no one else has ever been.

Alan Alda

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

I am much more interested in being creative than in being busy. Creating
feels good. It fills me, restores me, nourishes me and energizes me. There
are many ways to be creative. You can take scrap wood and build your cats
a series of shelves, boxes, and mazes. You can write, paint, shop, or talk
to people. When you are creating, you will feel the sense of creation in your
body, and time will not exist. If you have forgotten what a sense of creation is,
go look at a baby. When we see a baby, we see potential. Remember that
we are all former babies and we all have the potential within us.
Go to the nearest mirror and reflect on it.

Bernie Siegel

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity
is our gift back to God.

Julia Cameron

Creativity contributes to our sense of aliveness and our playfulness. . . .
One art teacher, Adriana Diaz, defines creations as "places where
caring and daring come together." They open our eyes to nature
and the body and give us fresh appreciation for both ritual and recreation.

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

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.

Sue Patton Thoele