Being creative is, it seems, a drug, a passion that drives them onwards. It is also a capability of all people, did we but know.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect–and, yes, wonder–at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

When I can no longer create anything, I’ll be done for.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Creation is a drug I can’t do without.

If a clever man can figure out how to hold up a cow by its ears, even a moron can milk it.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.