Julie Taymor Quotes

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

Young people can create beautiful things.

All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

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

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.

I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.

If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.