Quotes about Creativity

If you're always trying to be normal, you'll never know how amazing you can be.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

Faithfulness in our Christian walk requires order, some black-and-white fundamentals, but within that order is glorious room for color and creativity.

As you search for your calling, do you attempt to find someone He is using in exactly the same way? Stop! Of the six billion people on this planet, that person may not exist—because God is creative.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.

The drawing is also a reminder that there's an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is going on.

Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set into motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.   This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication.