Quotes about Creativity

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.

BRAIN: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.

A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Some poems took years to find their words.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Two musical options: old hymns or cheery camp songs. Then, as hippie musicians who came to Jesus applied their talents to writing praise music about Him, Christian teenagers had new music to call their own. The resulting creative explosion—what's known now as contemporary Christian music—changed the face of worship in many churches for decades to come.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.