Tom Peters Quotes

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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.

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

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

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

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

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