Audra McDonald Quotes

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

Every human being is an artist

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

All men are poets at heart.

For man is by nature an artist.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we're born, we're - all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

We are creators, just like the one who created us. And we are always expressing our creativity, with or without awareness.

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this.

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.

Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.

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