Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.