Creative - Creativity Quotes

Whenever the collective unconscious becomes a living experience and is brought to bear upon the conscious outlook of an age, the event is a creative act which is of importance to everyone living in that age. A work of art is produced that contains what may truthfully be called a message to generations of men.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

I look for what needs to be done… After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

Opening our lives to anything new means flirting with creativity. The more we know about a variety of things, the more raw material we have with which to be creative.

The ability of the mind to create is virtually limitless and is one of the ways we merge with the divine.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be (which means, of course, that he has achieved a certain measure of detachment from what is).

For me the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep at night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.