Creative Spirit Quotes:

The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.154, Routledge

topic: Adventure, Creative, Joy, Creative Spirit

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Confidence, Creativity, Men, Building Confidence, Dictating

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

- Aristotle

topic: Art, Philosophy, Philosophical, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

- Mary Caroline Richards

topic: Giving, Creative, May, Creative Spirit

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inner Voice, Improve Self Esteem

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Art, Spider Web

From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Life, Dust, Sea, Mountain Ranges, Creative Spirit

Great art picks up where nature ends.

- Marc Chagall

topic: Art, Ends, Great Art, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

source: Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.234, Hachette UK

topic: Selfish, Sleep, Creative, Creative Spirit

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

- Ernie J Zelinski

topic: Inspirational, Creative, Littles, Creative Spirit

At the heart of world time is the momentum of history. At the heart of personal time is the mystery and wonder of individuality. At the heart of deep, new time is the creative spirit. But at the heart of our time is love.

- David Spangler

topic: Heart, Creative, Individuality, Personal Time, Creative Spirit

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

- Fred Rogers

source: "The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember".

topic: Children, Differences, Play, Creative Spirit

To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child.

- Nita Leland

topic: Children, Creative, Delight, Creative Spirit

What I learned from comparisons and jealousies is that they point to where you haven't filled your cup or owned your gifts. They point to where you are not yet 100% you. We know that when you are fully engaged in doing what you're doing and your heart and creative spirit are involved, you couldn't care less what anybody else is doing.

- Agapi Stassinopoulos

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Heart, Creative, Care, Creative Spirit

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.

- Norman Bethune

topic: Men, Artist, Creative, Spirit Of Life, Creative Spirit

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

- Dan Simmons

topic: Perfect, Creative, Mixtures, Creative Spirit

While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.

- Valerie Estelle Frankel

source: Valerie Estelle Frankel (2010). “From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend”, p.20, McFarland

topic: Hero, Journey, Creative, Creative Spirit, Hero Journey

When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.

- Paul A. Kaufman

topic: Dream, Reality, Creative, Creative Spirit, New Ways Of Doing Things

Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: Art, Light, Flames, Light Up, Creative Spirit

Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

- Leon Edel

source: Leon Edel (1970). “Henry D. Thoreau”

topic: Men, Ideas, Creative, Hawthorne, Creative Spirit

It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall.

- Olaf Stapledon

topic: Fall, Creative, Sorrow, Creative Spirit

Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is the first time I've ever played a guitar. What am I going to do?”. That's one way of getting straight through the conscious mind into the subconscious layer where the true creative spirit lies.

- Edge

topic: Song, Lying, Guitar, Creative Spirit, Conscious Mind

Two creative spirits in a relationship, I don't think that's the best way to go.

- David Letterman

topic: Relationship, Thinking, Two, Creative Spirit

I doubted my creative spirit three years ago and God showed me a way to praise Him through song. It opened the door to a whole tapestry of images and concepts that were brand new for me and I continued on that path.

- Jonathan Cain

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: Song, Doors, Years, Creative Spirit, Tapestry

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

- Curtis Jackson

source: "The 50th Law". Book by 50 Cent and Robert Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2009.

topic: Self, Should Have, Goal, Sink Or Swim, Self Reliant

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

- Yanni

source: Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

topic: Optimism, Creative, Mind, Creative Spirit

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

topic: Believe, Mean, Creative, Creative Spirit

It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred.

- Heinrich Neuhaus

source: Genrikh Gustavovich Neĭgauz, Heinrich Neuhaus (1973). “The art of piano playing”, Longwood Pr Ltd

topic: Mean, Reality, Piano, Predetermined, Creative Spirit

People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.

- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Art, Creativity, Thinking, Creative Spirit

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

topic: Photography, Humble, Heart, Willingness To Learn, Creative Spirit

What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect each one of us in our daily lives—what kind of [buildings] we live in, what kind of clothes we wear, what we see with our eyes. We are often blind to the beautiful things around us. What I'm mostly concerned about is how often we're blind to our own talent. I think that within each human being there is a creative spirit, and some of us have been fortunate enough to have good teachers and parents who've brought this out and encouraged it, but others haven't.

- Joan Mondale

topic: Beautiful, Teacher, Art, Creative Spirit

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

- Herbert Hoover

topic: Hands, People, Creative, Creative Spirit

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what was good about it was that I was writing for somebody I knew. I knew what my mother thinks and how she feels. So it was finding that creative spirit to write about my mother.

- Teddy Pendergrass

topic: Mother, Writing, Thinking, Creative Spirit

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns out you never got around to it? If you wake up one day at eighty, will you feel nonchalant that something always took precedence over a daily commitment to discovering your creative spirit? If not--if this very thought fills you with regret--then what are you waiting for?

- Anne Lamott

topic: Regret, Writing, Heart, Break Your Heart, Used To Love

So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.

- Johann Gottfried Herder

topic: Book, Men, Creative, Limes, Creative Spirit

What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

- Leonard Cohen

topic: Beautiful, Creative, Purpose, Creative Spirit

The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They are the incorporation of the need of their collectivity for a new birth of spirit. They call down the creative spirit; they summon forth the future-even if it be through their own death

- Dane Rudhyar

topic: Drama, Moon, Creative, Incorporation, Symbolic

The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.

- Bruno Walter

source: Bruno Walter, James Austin Galston (1946). “Theme and Variations: An Autobiography”, New York, Knopf

topic: Men, Creative, Historical, Creative Spirit

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs

- Alfred P. Sloan

source: "Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction". Book by John Bourne, p. 11, 2000.

topic: Jobs, Real, Creative, Creative Spirit

Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.

- Bernard Arnault

topic: Jobs, Freedom, Thinking, Dior, Creative Spirit

Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.

- Lawren Harris

topic: Beautiful, Art, Plato, Creative Spirit

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

- Andy Hertzfeld

topic: Passion, Thinking, Perfection, Passion For Excellence, Creative Spirit

For me, collaborating is a marriage of the minds. It's two or more people coming together and making an idea come alive. Using their own creative knowledge or creative spirit to make the best version of an idea. To inspire an idea and to challenge it to be better than just one person's vision for it.

- Scarlett Johansson

source: "BWW Exclusive: InDepth InterView: Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. January 25, 2010.

topic: Ideas, Two, People, Collaborating, Creative Spirit

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

- Alfred P. Sloan

source: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

topic: Jobs, Creative, Pay, Creative Spirit