Oswald Spengler Quotes

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.

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

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

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

We are all Michaelangelos.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

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

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

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.

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

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