Quotes about Creativity

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

The Abundance Mentality, on the other hand, flows out of a deep inner sense of personal worth and security. It is the paradigm that there is plenty out there and enough to spare for everybody. It results in sharing of prestige, of recognition, of profits, of decision making. It opens possibilities, options, alternatives, and creativity.2

remember that there is an abundant need in this world for your contributions to the kingdom . . . your thoughts and words and artistic expressions . . . your exact brand of beautiful.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

What is distinctive and engaging about Jesus is not the novel things he says but the way he says things. He is creative not so much because he says things that are completely new but because he speaks with such authority.

The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify.

Beautiful things, as Matisse shows, always carry greetings from other worlds within them.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.