Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

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.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

So that's where it differs for me now, it's the creativity, versus, the raunchiness from back in the days. So I just try to be more creative nowadays.

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.