Natalie Goldberg Quotes

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I'm interested in creating new work.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

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

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.