Artistic Creativity Quotes:

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Art, Creativeness, Creative People

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Art, Creativity, Fine Arts, Art And Creativity

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

- Edwin Land

source: "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

topic: Inspiring, Courage, Failure, Creative People, Innovation And Business

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Creativity, Thinking, Self, Amazing Things, Creative People

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

topic: Inspirational, Change, Happiness, Feeling Down, Live Free

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Creative People, Creative Artists

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Witty, Creativity, Science, Creative People, Funny Sarcastic

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Life Wisdom

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity, Amazing Things, Creative People

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

- Julia Cameron

topic: Creativity, Creative, Leap Of Faith, Blank Pages, Empty Stage

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Creativity, Art And Creativity, Battleground

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

- Matt Groening

topic: Being Yourself, Creativity, Mean, Complying, Artistic Creativity

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

- Giacomo Meyerbeer

source: Giacomo Meyerbeer (1989). “Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Life in Letters”

topic: Creativity, Artistic, Fame, Artistic Creativity

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

- Robert Toth

topic: Creativity, Imagination, Mind, Swirls, Whirlpools

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

source: "Paul Klee, 1879-1940: Poet of Colours, Masters of Lines". Book by Paul Klee and Susanna Partsch, p. 47, 2000.

topic: Art, Creativity, Training, Craftsmanship, Artistic Creativity

Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.

- Paul Laseau

topic: Reading, Writing, Creativity, Successful Writing, Musical Composition

It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.

- Mohammad Khatami

topic: Religious, Philosophical, Creativity, John Paul Ii, Pope John Paul

Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.

- John Walford

topic: Creativity, Fate, Light, Narcissus, God Nature

We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only through having cultures that mankind on this earth has an ordered and meaningful life. Music and drama are two of the many important manifestation of a culture. They are important because they represent the expressions emanating from the power of human artistic creativity

- Tunku Abdul Rahman

topic: Meaningful, Drama, Creativity, Artistic Creativity

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Memories, Creativity, Emotional, Resiliency, Overlooking

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

- Rita Dove

topic: Believe, Creativity, Mean, Artistic Creativity

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.

- Nikolai Berdyaev

topic: Art, Attitude, Creativity, Burdens Of Life, Artistic Creativity