Creativity is as important as literacy

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to b...

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could...