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Quotations About Creativity
page 1 page 2 page 3 These quotes are about creativity and living creatively..
Imagination
is more important than knowledge. Muddy water when still becomes clear. Life is not an exact science. It is an art.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is
an obstacle. No great discovery was ever made without a bold
guess. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but
to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and
diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell
than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before
me. The soul looketh steadily forwards creating a new
world before her, leaving worlds behind her. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we would find it not. The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent
questioning. The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed
when I see in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. No great work has ever been produced except after
a long interval of still and musing meditation. Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire. Become as little children.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire
to be ignited. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative
act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old
ones."
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
The impossible is often the untried.
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
.Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
We live in a rainbow of Chaos
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
All art is but immitation of nature.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which
the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then
your time on earth will be filled with glory."
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate
is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he
wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Leo Rosten |
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