Edgar Mitchell Quotes

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

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

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

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

Creative instinct is personal.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

I think creativity becomes really beautiful and magical when you allow it to do what it's needing you to do.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Creativity is the power to act.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

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.