Many receive advice, few profit by it.

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

To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Creativity takes courage.

Every day is an opportunity to be creative - the canvas is your mind, the brushes and colours are your thoughts and feelings, the panorama is your story, the complete picture is a work of art called, 'my life'. Be careful what you put on the canvas of your mind today - it matters.

Creativity is... seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

Have you ever wondered why libraries have a special atmosphere? They are places where many congregate but where silence is the code. Quietness in an atmosphere means there is the presence of quiet minds, and quiet minds are not only relaxed, they can concentrate easily and create more freely. Imagine you are in the library of your mind, browsing the accumulated wisdom on the shelves of your life - listen to the silence, be aware of the stillness. Now you can really listen. Now you can really hear. Now you can really think. Now you can create. And behold, you are an artist. Did you not know that silence and creativity are best friends?

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

I believe creativity is like electricity. We don't understand how it works... we just use it.

It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Spend your time creating, not criticizing.

Don't squander your aggressive energy in frustration, resentment, hostility or self sabotage; channel it into creating the life you want by making a place in the market for the work you love.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. It diminishes us. It reduces inspiration to mere sales.

The creative path leads directly to a sacred realm.

True creativity is honest and authentic.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Learning is movement from moment to moment

Is life an obstacle course? Sometimes it may feel like it. If you join the military you will be sent around an obstacle course of increasing degrees of difficulty. Why? To increase your strength and stamina and expand your creative capacity under strain. So it is on the course called 'life' - you can choose to perceive people, situations or events as obstacles, or you can choose to use these things to strengthen and expand your capacity to be creative and to find ways round, under, over. The choice lies in your perception. Obstacles are never ever 'out there', they are always in our own minds.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Creativity means believing you have greatness

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things.... Not everybody can be a painter - and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live! And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But everybody can be creative. Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I dont know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it - whatsoever it is!

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things.... Not everybody can be a painter - and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live! And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But everybody can be creative. Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I dont know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it - whatsoever it is!