"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."
- Mary Kay Ash

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
Frank Capra (1897 - 1991) US director
In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
Rita Mae Brown (1944 - ____) US writer, playwright
"Starting From Scratch," 1988

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams (1957 - ____) US cartoonist, author
"The Dilbert Principle."

"Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware."
~ Arthur Koestler

"Good taste is the enemy of creativity."
- Pablo Picasso

"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
- Charles Kettering

"There is an artist within each person, and everybody has the capacity to find creative genius in themselves."
- Annette Moser-Wellman, founder of FireMark

"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."
- Saint Augustine

"We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach, From Hold That Thought

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
- Carrie Fisher

"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit."
- Frederick G. Banting

"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
- Henri Bergson

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
- Ray Bradbury

"Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life."
- Paul McCartney

"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself."
- James Stephens

"Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious, part of a pattern."
- Luci Shaw

"To be nobody -- but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
- e.e. cummings

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
- Victoria Holt

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In order to hear your calling and answer it, you must generously give yourself the gift of time. It's not how fast you make your dream come true, but how steadily you pursue it."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
- Diane Ackerman, Author

In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few.
Suzuki, Shunryu

Learning is movement from moment to moment
Krishnamurti, J.

The "silly question" is the first intimation of some totally new development.
Whitehead, Alfred North

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.
Finley, James D.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
De Chardin Teilhard

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud.
Osborn, Alex

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Stein, Gertrude

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Huxley, Thomas

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Proust, Marcel

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.
Amiel, henri-Frederic

Water which is too pure has no fish
Ts'ai Ken T'an

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Freud, Sigmund

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling, like dew, upon a thought produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.
Lord Byron

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.
Graham, Martha

Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration
Stravinsky, Igor

What will nurture the creative vision necessary to turn around a world possibly heading toward its own destruction? Music.
Hollander, Lorin

Surrounded by the right sounds, we all can be invigorated, energized, and balanced.
Diamond, Dr. John

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Phillpotts

"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
- Julia Cameron

"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."
- Henry Emerson Fosdick

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
- Confucius

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. "
- Karl "The Great" Wallenda

"The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line."
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

God gave us a memory so that we could have roses in December.
Anonymous

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Moore, Marianne

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Butler, Samuel

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious
Butler, Samuel

Learn to see, and then you'll know there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
Castaneda, Carlos

The more you know the less you understand.
Tao Te Ching

A mind too active is no mind at all.
Roethke, Theodore

The world of reality has limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Ah good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Picasso, Pablo

The creative thinker is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his thinking.
Cropley, A. J.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Huxley, Aldous

There is nothing better than music as a means for uplifting the soul.
Khan, Hazrat Inayat

Imagination is intelligence having fun.
anonymous

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
Inmon, Raymond

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Rumi

The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Proust, Marcel

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Einstein, Albert