Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

I like being creative.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to enjoy the propinquity of play. For it is the very freedom of the imagination. And what else were we born to do, but imagine freely?

With soccer, I have the ability to do things differently. That is why I admire Leonardo da Vinci. He was able to create things other people wouldn't believe in.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

As a kid I was creative.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I just want to be able to be creative.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.