Quotes about Creativity

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

What has become of standing unashamed for the gospel of Christ? No one is smarter than God. When he says to do his work in his way, we can be assured that he will produce his results for his glory. We don't need to get "creative" on him. God knows exactly what we need to do and expects us to trust and obey him in childlike simplicity.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.

Sewing: A creative mess is better than tidy idleness.

They come as a boon and a blessing to men, The Pickwick, the Owl, and the Waverley pen.