Quotes for the Journey: Creativity Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm

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I learned. . . that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.       -Brenda Ueland     Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain.  The brain is a receiver, not a source.       -Candace Pert     Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul.  Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage healing.  Creativity is mindfulness in motion--intuitive, artistic motion.  Creative moments and activities give you a boost and help you feel energized and good about yourself.       -Sue Patton Thoele     Creativity is God's gift to us.  Using our creativity is our gift back to God.       -Julia Cameron     Creativity contributes to our sense of aliveness and our playfulness. . . .  One art teacher, Adriana Diaz, defines creations as "places where caring and daring come together."  They open our eyes to nature and the body and give us fresh appreciation for both ritual and recreation.       -Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat      I don’t paint things.  I only paint the difference between things.       -Henri Matisse

I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man.   I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day.  I said, “You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different.”  “Ah,” he said, “I don’t think you should ever strike a key.  You should pull the keys with your fingers.”      -Andrew Wyeth

It is easy to consider the essential role of creativity in bringing joy and meaning to the human condition-- without creativity we have no art, no literature, no science, no innovation, no problem solving, no progress.  It is, perhaps, less obvious that creativity has an equally essential role in schools.  The processes of creativity parallel those of learning.  Recent calls for authentic activities, teaching for understanding, and real world problem solving all require engaging students with content in flexible and innovative ways.       -Alane Jordan Starko

Be brave enough to live creatively.  The creative is the place where no one else has ever been.      -Alan Alda

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us.  To create means to relate.  The root meaning of the word art is to fit together and we all do this every day. . . . Each time we fit things together we are creating--whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.       -Corita Kent and Jan Steward

I am the one and only me.  I may not think of myself as a creative person, but I know that I have unique talents and skills to share.   For instance, art may appear on a canvas, or it may appear in a meal prepared with love.  Some hands sculpt clay or play a musical instrument, and some gently hold the hand of a child.  Wisdom can be found in books, but it can also be found in quiet conversation across the kitchen table.  I am creative in my own unique way.  As I more fully express who I am, I bless others, and blessings flow back to me.  I am creative, productive, and open to divine inspiration.  I give my gifts to the world.       -Unattributed (Daily Word)

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.  The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.  The artist never entirely knows.  We guess.  We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.       -Agnes de Mille

I am much more interested in being creative than in being busy.  Creating feels good.  It fills me, restores me, nourishes me and energizes me.  There are many ways to be creative.  You can take scrap wood and build your cats a series of shelves, boxes, and mazes.  You can write, paint, shop, or talk to people.  When you are creating, you will feel the sense of creation in your body, and time will not exist.  If you have forgotten what a sense of creation is, go look at a baby.  When we see a baby, we see potential.  Remember that we are all former babies and we all have the potential within us.  Go to the nearest mirror and reflect on it.       -Bernie Siegel

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. . . most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.       -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.       -J. Krishnamurti

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he or she thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what this painting isn’t, until he or she finally finds out what it is.  And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you’re off and running.       -Anne Lamott

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.      -Mary Lou Cook

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk. Wilferd A. Peterson If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  Angels whisper to us when we go for walks. Raymond Inman

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.       -unattributed

I decided to start anew—to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking.  This was one of the best times of my life.  There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another.  I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown—no one to satisfy but myself.  I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white.  I believe it was June before I needed blue.       -Georgia O’Keefe

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.       -Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the child inside alive.        -John Cassavetes

The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature.  When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God:  good, orderly direction.  As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony.  As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within.  Artists love other artists.  Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist.  It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.       -Julia Cameron

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.       -Robert Anthony

Creation, after all, is only play.       -Stephen C. Paul

Your expression in all its forms is the dance of creation.       -Stephen C. Paul

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