Creative Mindset Quotes

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

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.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

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.

Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

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

Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

Make a list of activities that keep you tethered to your creative world, and put it where you can see it every day - like, right in the center of your image board.

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

When I was little, I was always going to the goal. I've always wanted to score and create something, and I think it's always been within me to play offensively.

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.

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Age is a very psychological thing; I do not know how old I am if you ask my age. Age is calculated by when you get born, but I do not agree with that parameter. I sometimes feel like 25, sometimes 12 and at times 40, and I love that about myself as an artist. I am not stuck to a particular age.

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

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes.

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