Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I believe in creative work.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

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

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

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

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

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

Creativity is what transforms.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

Creativity is something that is forever.

I'm creative so I'm always gonna create.

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.