Rupert Sheldrake Quotes

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

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.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

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.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

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

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

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

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

I don't understand how people live without creating.