Deepak Chopra Quotes

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

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

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

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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.

When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres.

Creativity is making a good pass at the right time... but it can also come from deeper, there should always be a balance.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

I don't understand how people live without creating.