Natalie Goldberg Quotes

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

I admire people who are creative.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

I'm always creative.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

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