There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Creativity takes courage.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Baking is both an art and a science.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

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.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.