Creativity

Let us choose to expand our minds and embrace the grace of life.

Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.

We unite our humility With our Creator’s ability When we embrace His divine grace

Faith is not a way of knowing. It is a way of yearning, of aspiring, and so, a way of creating.

Follow your own weird.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Don't expect anything original from an echo.

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity.

Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.

“In order to be filled with light I have to take the risk of plugging myself in. The more often I dip into the well of inspiration the more likely I am to be inspired. The seed grows in darkness before the tree bursts forth into the light.”

“I'm with you in suggesting that we integrate our spirituality through symbols, myths, dreams and stories, instead of fixed certainties. For me the problem with fixed certainties is that they become so fixed they're no longer certain (if not certainly wrong). I also believe that spirituality is full of mystery and paradox, which gives me an opportunity to engage in play.”

Without deviation from the norm, ‘progress’ is not possible.

Part of reinventing the sacred is to heal...injuries that we hardly know we suffer. If we are members of a universe in which emergence and ceaseless creativity abound, if we take that creativity as a sense of God we can share, the resulting sense of the sacredness of all of life and the planet can help orient our lives beyond the consumerism and commodification the industrialized world now lives, heal the split between reason and faith, heal the split between science and the humanities, heal the want of spirituality, heal the wound derived from the false reductionist belief that we live in a world of fact without values, and help us jointly build a global ethic. These are what is at stake in finding a new scientific worldview that enables us to reinvent the sacred.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.

When once you have taken the impossible into your calculations, it's possibilities become practically limitless!

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all – human creativity. That’s the real prize.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you."

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

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it's what we do with them that is important.

Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

With the stones we cast at them, genius build new roads for us.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. 
These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone.  Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love.

Another word for creativity is courage.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

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

One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.