Creativity Quotes

"Tradition and invention must perform a dance with each other."

"The power to create is the power to transform the world."

"Every act of creation is an act of rebellion against the status quo."

"We must still have chaos within ourselves to give birth to a dancing star."

"One must still have chaos in one's soul to give birth to a dancing star."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"Innovation emerges from the friction between competing forces."

"The creative impulse is stifled by want and poverty."

"Ideas are not born; they are made through practice and struggle."

"Tradition and innovation must be held together in a unity of creative tension."

"The cultivation of an enlarged desire is essential to the wellbeing of mankind."

"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."

"Individuality is the same thing with development."

"Individuality of circumstances is the principal thing."

"Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. Passion and warmth are everything."

"To build a new world we need new men with new thoughts."

"The real solution to the problem of humanity lies in creative action."

"In the habit of reflection all the arts and sciences have their origin."

"The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with material activity."

"Necessity is not only the mother of necessity; she is also the mother of invention."

"Resistance must work with the very mechanisms that constrain us, turning them against themselves."

"To write is to engage in a constant struggle with language, never fully capturing what one intends to say."

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual."

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age."

"Genius is the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

"Thought is itself a species of execution."

"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."

"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."

"The highest and best of humanity is achieved when the mind is free to think and the spirit is free to create."

"The development of new ideas and the criticism of old ones must go hand in hand."