The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
NEIL GAIMAN, journal, Nov. 5, 2004
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
ANAIS NIN, diary, Oct. 18, 1936
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLE, attributed, Witty Words from Wise Women
Creativity is one of the main foundations on which human progress is built up.
A. N. P. UMMERKUTTY, Success is a Marathon
Creativity is never just doing something different. It is doing something different that is significant at that precise point in the cultural tradition.
MARK AMSLER, The Languages of Creativity
The search for knowledge about creativity is linked with magic, the demonic, and the divine, yet such knowledge is at the forefront of rational inquiry. Creativity is paradoxical and complex, and the most steadfast investigator is constantly beset with feelings of awe and a sense of mystery as he pursues his inquiry. Creativity encompasses the magical incantations and drawings of primitive man, the appearance of new forms in nature, and the evil genius of Faust. It is a human capacity but it seems to transcend human capacities.
ALBERT ROTHENBERG, The Creativity Question
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
ANAIS NIN, The Novel of the Future
A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.
FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes, attributed in Dune: House of Atreides
I am a natural creator. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy--pure creative energy. It is my birthright to co-create my life and my experience. My dreams come from God. The power to fulfill my dreams is God given. There is an indwelling, underlying creative power infusing all of life, including ourselves. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the Great Creator working with us and within us.
JULIA CAMERON, Heart Steps
Peaks of creativity are, of course, rare, as are peaks of strength, beauty, or goodness. We are a gifted species, but feats like penning a Hamlet, or formulating the relativity theory, or inspiring satyagraha by the millions do come but once in a long while. But peaks are not the only attractive or important features of a landscape. There are also vales and moors and meadows and waters and woods. The layperson may look at the sun and conclude there is no worthwhile light elsewhere. She would be mistaken. Lesser human creativity is scattered widely, like the lights of a city at night, and in its own way, is quite attractive and useful.
KWANDWALLA, Lifelong Creativity
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