Creativity

Creativity

• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Man’s value is in the few things he creates and not in the many possessions he amasses. — Kahlil Gibran

• We cannot buy the ability to create in even the finest store in the world. We cannot buy the beauty of the creative state of mind. We can have three billion dollars or three, and it’s all the same. — Sage of Mt. Si

• Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity… any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. — John Updike, writer

• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. — Anais Nin

• You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul. — George B. Shaw

• Pioneers did not produce original works of art, because they were creating original human environments; they did not image utopias because they were shaping them. — George Woodcock

• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power.  — Marie-Louise Von Frantz