As a creative person, you will have to continually try new things and stretch your limits of imagination and venture into uncharted territory.
I believe that every single one of us is highly creative but some of us have forgotten that we can rekindle the creative fires and unleash our creative adventures in new ways.
Here is a list of quotes and action ideas to inspire you to unleash your creativity!
YOU WILL HAVE TO IGNITE YOUR INNER FIRE OF IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY
1. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau
2. “Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.” - Ken Robinson, The Element
3. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” ― George Bernard Shaw
4. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ― Albert Einstein
5. “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” ― Edith Södergran
Unleashing Creative Action:
Do you freely draw from your imagination?
Figure out what ignites your inner fires of creativity and passion and begin there.
Are you implementing your most creative and imaginative ideas?
THEN YOU NEED TO SCRATCH AND DISCOVER CREATIVE IDEAS
6. “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” ― Dr. Seuss
7. “Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.” ― Twyla Tharp
8. “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. ” ~Pablo Picasso
9. “You can be creative in anything – in math, science, engineering, philosophy – as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.” – Sir Ken Robinson
10. “When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Unleashing Creative Action:
Are you breaking out of routines and embracing what seems like nonsense to wake up the brain cells?
Collect creative ideas from very different sources of inspiration and have a system to collect, recall, mix, match and implement.
You can be creative in anything!
In the middle of the night, in the shower and in places that you least expect, your great big idea or creative solution may be lurking. Be prepared to capture it!
YOU WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY RUN INTO FEAR, DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY…EMBRACE YOUR CONFIDENCE ANYWAYS
11. “I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most.” – C. JoyBell C.
12. “Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not – because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.” – Sir Ken Robinson
13. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath
14.“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
15. “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single think that I wanted to do.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe
16. “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh
17. “What we do know is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong.” – Ken Robinson
Unleashing Creative Action:
Embrace your inner creative side and allow it to be expressed.
Create regardless of the still silent voice that tells you that you are not creative enough. Create anyways.
Running into chaos and navigating uncertainty and fear can be the fuel to your creative fires.
Allow fear and excitement to co-exist and create something great in your life. In fact, if you are not afraid, you are not trying hard enough to get out of your comfort zone.
When you treat failure and being wrong as part of an exciting adventure, your creative perspective changes immediately.
YOU WILL NEED TO CONTINUALLY REMIND YOURSELF OF YOUR FAITH AND BELIEF IN YOUR CREATIVITY
18. “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
19. “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” -Rita Mae Brown
20. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”― Maya Angelou
Unleashing Creative Action:
Trust your creative instincts and your creative process.
Take small risks that place you in a new realm of creative discovery and adventure.
Do not worry about running out of creative ideas.
YOU GET TO BE CURIOUS LIKE A CHILD
21. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people” – Leo Burnett
22. “Creativity is a continual surprise.” ― Ray Bradbury
23. “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”― Walt Disney
Unleashing Creative Action:
Become very curious like a child.
Allow yourself to become fascinated and surprised by the creative process by trying new things and moving forward.
AS YOU PRACTICE, YOU WILL BE IMMERSED IN CREATIVE WONDER AND FLOW
24. “The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” ― Robert Henri
25. “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
26. “Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” ~E.B. White
27. “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”― Emily Dickinson
28. “If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”― Pablo Picasso
29 “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” – Edward de Bono
30. The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. —Marcel Proust
Unleashing Creative Action:
Focus your attention to the creative project at hand and immerse yourself in the moment.
When you engage your skills and attempt to challenge your creative powers with your focus, attention and immersion, you will enter into the wonderful feeling of creative flow.
Do not overthink or analyze the creative process.
Change your perspective to look at new horizons.
Assume different personas and break out of patterns that you may have fallen into.
YOU WILL NEED TO JUMP OUT OF BED AND ENTER THE CREATIVE ACTION MODE
31. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” – Dr. Seuss
32. “That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.” ― Pablo Picasso
33. “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club” – Jack London
34. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
Unleashing Creative Action:
Take action now!
The more you create and connect and combine and put your work out in the world, the better you become.
Do not allow perceptions and assumptions to hold you back.
AND WHEN YOU ARE STUCK AND FAILURE IS IMMINENT…RECONNECT WITH YOUR WHAT AND WHY OF CREATIVITY
35. “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”- Steve Jobs
36. “Creativity is contagious, pass it on” – Albert Einstein
37. “Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.” – Neil Gaiman
38. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ~Albert Einstein
39. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso
40. BE the change that you wish to see in the world: Gandhi
41. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Unleashing Creative Action:
Inspire yourself when you are feeling uninspired.
Take a break and have some fun. Attempt to make the creative process fun and exciting.
Become very clear of your “why.”
Remind yourself that you are on a creative mission and you are the change that you want to see in your life.
WHEN YOU GET EXHAUSTED, LET IT INCUBATE
41. “A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.”― Phoebe Stone
Unleashing Creative Action:
Allow ideas to connect and recombine in your consciousness by letting go of the conscious thinking process.
Like a fine brew, allow your creativity to mature and bubble to the surface in interesting ways.
THEN SEIZE THE CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY, YOUR INNER CREATIVE WARRIOR
42. “Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.” ― Henry David Thoreau
43. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm
44. “Creativity is an act of defiance.” ― Twyla Tharp
Unleashing Creative Action:
Unleash the inner creative warrior.
Let of horizons of certainty to boldly sail into uncharted creative seas.
AND THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO OVERCOME ANXIETY AND PERFECTIONISM AND OVER-THINKING AND PRACTICAL WELL WISHERS
45. “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity” ― T.S. Eliot
46. “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
47. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ~Pablo Picasso
48. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” – Ray Bradbury
Unleashing Creative Action:
Do not be ruled by anxiety and perfectionism.
Allow yourself to create regardless of feelings of anxiety and wanting things to be perfectly right.
Whenever you over-think and over-worry, just take more action. Create more. Allow more and let the process unfold.
YOU GET TO ENJOY EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR CREATIVE JOURNEY AND EMBRACE CREATIVE ENTHUSIASM AND YOUR AUTHENTIC STORY IN EVERY NEW STEP
49. “Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order” ― Virginia Woolf
50. “To succeed in any field, Our enthusiasm-eyes must sparkle and our enthusiasm-hearts Must dance.” ― Sri Chinmoy
51. Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. – Bo Bennett.
52. “My Life is My Message” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
53. “I kept reaching for my muses, my wandering muses, floating on clouds filled with their passions.”― Chimnese Davids, Muses of Wandering Passions.
54. “When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” —Patanjali
Unleashing Creative Action:
Step into the powerful zone of creative enthusiasm.
Setup your space and the creative process and context to infuse you with inspiration and purpose.
Stretch into the greatest creative discovery of your life and allow the adventure to unfold and you will enjoy the thrill of every moment.
Now over to you! Please let me know which quote # is your favorite and how has it influenced your creative process.
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