Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.

Be a creator, not a reactor.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

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

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

I care about being creative and productive.

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.