Quotes about Creativity

Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working.

I do not search; I find.

The lack of diversity is harmful to the vitality of a healthy team ecosystem—the climate needed to engender creativity and insight. For it is the diversity of experiences, perspectives, and skills that introduces increased quantities of creative solutions.

Many feel that process and creativity are in conflict, believing that creativity needs spontaneity and unstructured approaches. No doubt, a lot of creativity is a by-product of informal, spontaneous thinking.

For many centuries, nobles and magnates supported artists, musicians and authors so that their creative works would be dedicated to them.

To live strongly and creatively in the kingdom of the heavens, we need to have firmly fixed in our minds what our future is to be like. We want to live fully in the kingdom now, and for that purpose our future must make sense to us. It must be something we can now plan or make decisions in terms of, with clarity and joyful anticipation. In this way our future can be incorporated into our life now and our life now can be incorporated into our future.

Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty.

Now, Jesus himself was and is a joyous, creative person. He does not allow us to continue thinking of our Father who fills and overflows space as a morose and miserable monarch, a frustrated and petty parent, or a policeman on the prowl.

Unlike egotism, the drive to significance is a simple extension of the creative impulse of God that gave us being. It is not filtered through self-consciousness any more than is our lunge to catch a package falling from someone's hand. It is outwardly directed to the good to be done. We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.