Creativity

“The most important thing I learned from big companies is that creativity gets stifled when everyone’s got to follow the rules.” —David Kelley

“Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.” —Alexander Osburn

“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.” —Rollo May

“Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.” —Robert Toth

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.” —Samuel Johnson

“A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.” —Julia Cameron