Creativity Quotes

"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary is that it be interesting." "The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life." "In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior" "If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards" "You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the art goes out of it" "The work of a true social entrepreneur is to think and dream and imagine how the world could be" "You have to work at creating your own culture" "If you go to your grave without painting your master piece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it" "I reject your reality and substitute my own" "In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well" "To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality." "It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head." "In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject." "It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower." "You can't decide to turn creativity on or off. You can't tell yourself to have a good idea. The best you can do is try to create an environment where good ideas can happen"