"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:

A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off...

They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating."
Pearl Buck, US novelist (1892 - 1973)

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."
Rita Mae Brown

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'

"If we don't go crazy once in a while, we'll all go crazy."
Hawkeye, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Alan Alda

"It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it."
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994

"I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time."
Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988), 1980

"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."
Mary Daly

"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist and painter. 1881-1973)

"Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to"
Rosabeth Moss Kanter (American business speaker and consultant )