Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love. — Howard Gardner
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way. — Mary Baker Eddy
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. — Voltaire
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. — H. L. Mencken
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. — Sappho
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. — John Ruskin
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. — Carl Jung
The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe. — John Daido Loori
Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love. — Walt Whitman
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life. — Gertrude Stein
My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others. — Chief Dan George
Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love. — Wynton Marsalis
Short Creative Love Quotes
Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness. — Osho
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. — Gilbert Parker
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. — Earl Nightingale
Work is love made visible. — Kahlil Gibran
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. — Marc Chagall
Two human loves make one divine. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is the oxygen of the soul — Tony Robbins
What is done in love is done well. — Vincent Van Gogh
Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all. — Isaac Watts
Top 10 Creative Love Quotes
The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion. — Giambattista Bodoni
Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work. — Lewis Grizzard
Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play. — Henri Matisse
The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive. — Emmet Fox
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi
For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. — Akira Toriyama
If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, then you can start to understand them. — Bernard Arnault
Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing. — Lenny Kravitz
It turns out that a lot of gamers love design, love to create in digital. — Jensen Huang
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. — Andy Warhol
Creative Love Image Quotes
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Creative Life Quotes
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life? — Jean Piaget
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh
A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path. — Gay Hendricks
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind. — Donald Woods Winnicott
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. — Denis Waitley
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity. — William S. Burroughs
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory. — Osho
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. — Mark Rothko
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. — Alberto Giacometti
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms...
Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done. — Joseph Beuys
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts. — Walter Gropius
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. — Francisco Goya
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity — Mae Jemison
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all. — Gilles Deleuze
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity. — D.T. Suzuki
Creative Imagination Quotes
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'. — George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially. — Chris Cornell
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath
When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within — Pipilotti Rist
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Science is a creative process. It requires imagination, the ability to connect dots that maybe other people haven't connected before. — Jennifer Doudna
Everybody has been given this gift by the man upstairs, and it's this thing called imagination. Some of us use it for negative and some of us use it for positive. — Patrick Bet-David
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. — Jill Scott
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
Follow your passions, live the life you’ve imagined and do what scares you. — Christina Koch
Chase your passions and surround yourself with people who inspire and uplift you. — Edward Barber
A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the "popular" choice. — Tabatha Coffey
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Find your passion and tell everyone about it. Talk about it until you can’t talk anymore! — Russell Brunson
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. — Bob Blumer
Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels. — Max Azria
Creative Work Quotes
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'. — Taiichi Ohno
Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them. — Peter Saville
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. — Rita Mae Brown
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. — Christina Rossetti
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. — Joline Godfrey
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. — Banksy
My work is to help innovators and designers understand that the success of their creativity is in large part based on the success of their products. — Bernard Arnault
Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. — Rick Rubin
Artistic Creativity Quotes
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. — Massimo Vignelli
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience. — Harry Belafonte
I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again. — Akira Toriyama
We did not begin the creative process by talking about the bottom line. — Bernard Arnault
I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. — Akira Toriyama
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best. — Leontyne Price
Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen are innovators; fashion inventors; artists who create. — Bernard Arnault
Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment. — Pat McGrath
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli
Creative Artist Quotes
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari
Our whole business is based on giving our artists and designers complete freedom to invent without limits. — Bernard Arnault
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. — Steve Jobs
Designers are closer to artists than to engineers. — Bernard Arnault
When I draw something, the incredibly annoying thing is that it doesn't come out like I pictured. — Akira Toriyama
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky
When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child. — Akira Toriyama
Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation — Mr. Brainwash
When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures. — Akira Toriyama
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. — Montgomery Clift
Creative Thought Quotes
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old — Peter Drucker
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Mel Brooks
You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought. — Charles F. Haanel
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. — Albert Einstein
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking — Albert Einstein
Left-nostril breathing shifts blood flow to the opposite side of the prefrontal cortex, the right area that plays a role in creative thought, emotions, formation of mental abstractions, and negative emotions. — James Nestor
There should be something revelatory about art.
It should be totally creative and open doors
for new thoughts and experiences. — Tracey Emin
You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know. — Mary Wells Lawrence
I always had a lot of ideas, and I never thought I couldn’t do something. If you have a good idea and you believe in it, you just go for it. — Glen Bell
Creative Expression Quotes
Music is something I've always been interested in and incorporated into my videos. — Jake Paul
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. — Arsene Wenger
Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it. — Rick Rubin
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act. — Andrei Tarkovsky
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up. — Chris Van Allsburg
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. — Suzanne Vega
The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. — Akira Toriyama
The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way. — Silvano Arieti
As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world. — Anna Halprin
It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are. — Janine Shepherd
Creative Music Quotes
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. — Nadia Boulanger
'It's Everyday Bro' started with me talking about the things I do on a day-to-day basis. From there, the creativity was unleashed, and the song was the result. — Jake Paul
Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse. — Thom Yorke
The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship. — Rick Rubin
Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before. — James Newton Howard
Let's just say, I went to Sweden for a reason, to make music. — Logan Paul
I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artists aren't able to make songs about - you wouldn't hear Justin Bieber making a song about homework, or, like, you wouldn't see someone make a song with their parents on the track. — Jake Paul
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned. — Martin Freeman
Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much. — Jimmy Carl Black
When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. — 50 Cent
I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. — Leonid Afremov
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. — Gilda Radner
Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms. — Marion Woodman
Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy. — Leo Babauta
Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing. — Leo Babauta
Great founders don’t do what they love; they enable a vision. — Rand Fishkin
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. — Luis J. Rodriguez
It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter. — Phil Jackson
Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us. — Albert Schweitzer
For those who aspire to become K-pop artists, I’d like to say ‘Have confidence and love yourself.’ — Lisa Manoban
I think that's where you get your inspiration from. Your favorite things that you love. — James Murray
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. — Deepak Chopra
It is time for you to make a commitment to create joy, creativity and love for yourself, only then will you benefit others, for if you do not evolve yourself, you do not serve others. By becoming a living example, by following what is in your heart, you show the way for others to follow with courage, what is in their hearts. — Barbara Marciniak
You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him. — Frederick Herzberg
The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free. — Yanni
The true spiritual secret is this: what you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity~ it's the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature. — Deepak Chopra
I like engineering, but I love the creative input. — John Dykstra
If you’re going to love someone or something then don’t be a slow leaking faucet – be a hurricane. — Shannon Alder
You will find that living in space can actually become a home, in spite of tools floating away. Alien to all you know, you will adapt and you will love it. — Peggy Whitson
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind. — Wislawa Szymborska
Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. — Mother Teresa
Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind. — Dave Willis
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. — Robert Fripp
We don’t make commercials. We don’t sell your product. We tell stories that make the right audience fall in love with you. – Pat Flynn — Pat Flynn
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. — Osho
Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere. — Anthony Kiedis
I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds. — Sayings
I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I’d be very, veryhappy. — Pink
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