Quotes about Creativity
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
— Khalil Gibran
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
— Pablo Picasso
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
— William Faulkner
The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
— Mark Twain
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
— William Osler
We will make love an art and we will love like artists.
— Marianne Williamson
God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
— Marianne Williamson
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
— John Keats
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
— Vincent Van Gogh