Beautiful sayings about children's creativity. Quotes about creative people

When routine or work achieves qualitative progress and turns into creativity, the horror of death disappears from the foreground, leaving room for self-expression and imagination. – L. Tolstoy

Creative initiative is quite a complex thing, elevating ordinary work to an unprecedented height of improvisation. – N. Ostrovsky

Freedom, openness and life will always find a place for ingenuity, new ideas and rationalization proposals, as well as creativity. – S. Bulgakov

Creativity over the years transforms into the equivalent of wealth. – K. Marx

The source of creativity is within us, synthesized from the personality, absorbing external processes and the inner world of the individual. The phenomenon is similar to protein synthesis. – G. Plekhanov

Enthusiasm for creativity needs to be fueled, otherwise it may fade away without creating worthwhile ideas and substances. – K. Paustovsky

Passion within certain limits is called creativity. – M. Prishvin

Talent is the ease of actions that are inaccessible to others. Genius is something beyond the control of talent. Creativity is the fantasy of all sorts of things. – A. Amiel

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No one knows what his powers are until he uses them. – J. Goethe

Man's abilities, so far as experience and analogy teach us, are limitless; there is no reason to suppose even any imaginary limit at which the human mind will stop. – G. Buckle

You can't learn creative techniques. Every creator has his own techniques. One can only imitate higher techniques, but this leads nowhere, and one cannot penetrate into the work of the creative spirit. – I. Goncharov

It’s wonderful to invent yourself, but to know and appreciate what others have found is less than to create. – J. Goethe

He who is born with talent and for talent finds his best existence in it. – J. Goethe

In fact, the creator usually experiences only grief. – L. Shestov

The creative personality obeys a different, higher law than the law of simple duty. For someone who is called to perform a great deed, to carry out a discovery or feat that moves all of humanity forward, for that person his true homeland is no longer his fatherland, but his deed. He feels ultimately responsible only to one authority - to the task that he is destined to solve, and he would rather allow himself to despise state and temporary interests than the internal obligation that his special fate, his special talent have placed on him. – S. Zweig

Essentially, in order to deeply appreciate the creation of what we call genius, one must oneself possess the genius necessary for such an accomplishment. – E. Poe

We are born with abilities and powers that allow us to do almost everything - in any case, these abilities are such that they can take us further than we can easily imagine; but only the exercise of these forces can impart to us skill and art in anything and lead us to perfection. – D. Locke

If talent does not have sufficient strength within itself to align itself with its aspirations and enterprises, it produces only empty flowers when you expect fruit from it. – V. Belinsky

Great talent requires great hard work. – P. Tchaikovsky

The highest task of talent is to make people understand the meaning and value of life through their work. – V. Klyuchevsky

Ingenuity lies precisely in the ability to compare things and recognize their connections. – L. Vauvenargues

The creative process in its very course acquires new qualities, becomes more complex and richer. – K. Paustovsky

Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength... - M. Gorky

Everyone feels what their strength is, which they can count on. – Lucretius

Only strong talent can embody an era. – D. Pisarev

Discoveries are made when everyone thinks that this cannot be, but one person does not know it. – A. Einstein

True talents do not get angry because of criticism: She cannot damage their beauty, Only fake flowers are afraid of rain. – I. Krylov

Any worker, be it a writer, artist, composer, scientist, scientist or cultural worker, cannot create without being separated from social work and from life. Without impressions, delight, inspiration, without life experience - there is no creativity. – D. Shostakovich

Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent. – W. Shakespeare

I maintain that a bad head, having auxiliary advantages and exercising them, can outperform the best, just as a child can draw a line on a ruler better than the greatest master by hand. – G. Leibniz

To create - whether new flesh or spiritual values ​​- means to break free from the captivity of your body, it means to rush into the hurricane of life, it means to be the One who Is. To create means to kill death. – R. Rolland

The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people. – N. Karamzin

Impossible is a word that only narrow-minded people will use. – Napoleon I

Great talents are products of painful passion... – J. D’Alembert

Talent must be encouraged. – V. Lenin

If you don’t know how to hold an ax in your hand, you won’t be able to cut wood, and if you don’t know the language well, you won’t be able to write it beautifully and understandably to everyone. – M. Gorky

He who creates loves himself in it; therefore, he has to hate himself in the deepest way - in this hatred he knows no measure. – F. Nietzsche

A vocation can only be recognized and proven by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace or well-being in order to devote himself to his vocation. – L. Tolstoy

Creation! Only it can save you from torment and make life easier! – F. Nietzsche

Talent is one-third instinct, one-third memory, and one-third will. – K. Dossey

Ability means little without opportunity. – Napoleon

There is something rarer, more extraordinary, than giftedness. It is the ability to recognize the giftedness of others. – G. Lichtenberg

True talents do not go unrewarded: there is an audience, there is posterity. The main thing is not to receive, but to deserve. – N. Karamzin

All of us, unfortunately, are not equally suited to all matters. – Propertius

Great talents are alien to pettiness. – O. Balzac

To follow your inclinations means to be your own slave. – M. Montaigne

Talent... gives everyone double the price. – Ya. Chernyshevsky

Compared to what we should be, we are still in a half-asleep state. We use only a small part of our physical and mental resources. In general, we can say that a person lives in this way far beyond his capabilities. He has abilities of various kinds that he does not usually use. – W. James

When the sea is calm, anyone can be a helmsman. – Publilius Syrus

Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood. – F. Dostoevsky

Who's stopping you from inventing waterproof gunpowder? – Kozma Prutkov

Insomnia is the cradle of creativity. – I. Shevelev

Talent is a spark of God with which a person usually burns himself, illuminating the path for others with his own fire. – V. Klyuchevsky

The first stage of all creativity is self-forgetfulness. – M. Prishvin

Talent, like character, manifests itself in struggle. Some people adapt to circumstances, others defend such necessary human principles as honor, integrity, and loyalty. The opportunists disappear. The principled ones, having overcome all difficulties, remain. – V. Uspensky

Don't you know if you have talent yet? Give it time to mature; and even if it doesn’t exist, does a person really need poetic talent in order to live and act? – I. Turgenev

Any person of average abilities can, through proper work on himself, diligence, attention and perseverance, become anything he wants, except a good poet. – F. Chesterfield

What is the main sign of real talent? This is constant development, constant self-improvement. – V. Stasov

The ratio of intelligence and talent is comparable only to the ratio of the whole and the particle. – J. Labruyère

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Over the course of life, we learn the limits of our abilities. – 3. Freud

There is only one happiness: to create. Only the one who creates is alive. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are creative joys... - R. Rolland

The truth is the power of talent; wrong direction destroys the strongest talent. – Ya. Chernyshevsky

The great creations of the human spirit are like mountain peaks: their snow-white peaks rise higher and higher before us, the further we move from them. – S. Bulgakov

Let everyone know their abilities and let them strictly judge themselves, their virtues and vices. – Cicero

What is talent? Talent is... the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express poorly. – F. Dostoevsky

He who does not use his talents to teach and educate others is either a bad or limited person. – G. Lichtenberg

The level of honor of society depends on the level of respect (even reverence, worship) for talent; there is no greater blow to honor than the triumph of mediocrity. – E. Bogat

Vocation is the backbone of life. – F. Nietzsche

The creators of great ideas always treat their creativity with disdain and are not inclined to think about its future path. – L. Shestov

It has long been noted that talents appear everywhere and always, wherever and whenever social conditions exist that are favorable for their development. – G. Plekhanov

In creativity, maximum output does not deplete, but tones. – I. Shevelev

You can notice the similarities between human creativity and trees: both have special properties and are capable of bearing fruits unique to them. – F. La Rochefoucauld

Man is glorified neither by gold nor by silver. The man is famous for his talent and skill. – A. Jami

Ability cannot exist where there is no place for its manifestation. – L. Feuerbach

To create is nothing other than to believe. – R. Rolland

It seems to us that people have a poor understanding of both their capabilities and their strengths: they exaggerate the former, and underestimate the latter. – F. Bacon

Brevity is the soul of wit. – A. Chekhov

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for that all other pleasures no longer exist. – A. Chekhov

And since these problems are solved in childhood, it is primarily the parents’ fault. Without their help, the child cannot solve these problems. – V. Zubkov

Talents measure the success of civilization, and they also represent milestones of history, serving as telegrams from ancestors and contemporaries to posterity. – Kozma Prutkov

I generally don’t believe in the power of talent alone, without hard work. Without it, the greatest talent will fizzle out, just as a spring will die out in the desert, without making its way through the sands... - F. Chaliapin

Creativity is the beginning that gives a person immortality. – R. Rolland

Creativity... is an integral, organic property of human nature... It is a necessary accessory of the human spirit. It is as legitimate in a person, perhaps, as two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and forms a whole with him. – F. Dostoevsky

The ability to create is a great gift of nature; the act of creativity in the creative soul is a great sacrament; a minute of creativity is a minute of great sacred rite. – V. Belinsky

Everything that causes the transition from non-existence to being is creativity. – Plato

The ability is assumed in advance, but it must become a skill. – J. Goethe

There are no incapable people. There are those who are unable to determine their abilities and develop them.

Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice. All sorts of petty and selfish feelings interfere with creativity. And creativity is selfless service to the art of the people. – V. Kachalov

There are no more reliable patrons than our own abilities. – L. Vauvenargues

Another person's talent seems less than it is, because he always sets too big tasks for himself. – F. Nietzsche

There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating. – N. Gogol

The highest talent will easily disgrace himself if someone who is too self-confident wants to measure his strength the first time in a matter that requires enormous preliminary information, maturity of mind in judgment and experience in life. – N. Pirogov

Joy can only be found in creativity - everything else is perishable and insignificant. – A. Koni

Always remain unsatisfied: this is the essence of creativity. – J. Renard

Some are colorless in the first row, but shine in the second. – Voltaire

But talent lives, genius immortal. – M. Glinka

Ordinary people are only concerned with passing the time; and whoever has any talent - to take advantage of the time. – A. Schopenhauer


Only he is gifted with a happy fate,
He is joyful whose heart is just.

Albukasim Ferdowsi

What is a poet? A person who writes poetry? Of course not. He is called a poet not because he writes in poetry; but he writes in verse, that is, he brings words and sounds into harmony, because he is the son of harmony, a poet.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

Truly, art lies in nature; whoever knows how to discover it owns it.

Albrecht Durer

A wonderful imagination is as necessary for the historian as for the poet, for without imagination nothing can be seen, nothing can be understood.

Anatole France

A sense of proportion in art is everything.

Anatole France

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Happiness is spending yourself on the creation of your own hands, which will live even after your death.

Every climb is painful. Rebirth is painful. Without being exhausted, I won’t be able to hear the music. Suffering and effort help the music to sound.

Did the effort seem fruitless to you? Blind man, take a few steps back... The magic of skillful hands has created masterpieces, hasn't it? But believe me, success and failure have created them equally... A beautiful dance is born from the ability to dance.

Only a bee recognizes the hidden sweetness in a flower,
Only an artist senses the trace of beauty in everything.

Afanasy Afanasievich Fet

When I create music, I don't think about it in isolation from the idea.

Benjamin Britten

An unmistakable sign that something is not art or someone does not understand art is boredom... Art should be a means of education, but its goal is pleasure.

Bertolt Brecht

All types of arts serve the greatest of arts - the art of living on earth.

Bertolt Brecht

Art requires knowledge.

Bertolt Brecht

When humanity is destroyed, there is no more art. Putting beautiful words together is not an art.

Bertolt Brecht

The round dance has started - dance it to the end.

Bulgarian proverb

Art is always, without ceasing, occupied with two things. It relentlessly ponders death and relentlessly creates life.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, and creativity.

Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky

The third ability of the soul after mind and will is creativity.

Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky

Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice.

Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov

Life is not a burden, but wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.

Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev

Music is the universal language of the world.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I listen to music, I hear very clear answers to all my questions, and everything in me calms down and becomes clearer. Or, more precisely, I feel that these are not questions at all.

Gustav Mahler

In order to discover the laws belonging to the world of primary images, the artist must awaken to life as a person: almost all of his noble feelings, a considerable share of intelligence, intuition, and the desire to create must be developed in him.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

The laws of Art originate not in the material, but in the ideal world where Beauty lives; matter can only indicate the boundaries within which artistic inspiration spreads.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

God created music as a common language for people.

When love and craftsmanship come together, you can expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Without impressions, delight, inspiration, without life experience - there is no creativity.

Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

To always remain unsatisfied is the essence of creativity.

Jules Renard

Only a chosen one can create art,
Everyone loves art.

Julien Grün

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The layman imagines that in order to be creative one must wait for inspiration. This is a deep misconception.

Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky

High art not only reflects life, it, by participating in life, changes it.

Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg

In any work of art, great or small, everything down to the last detail depends on the design.

Art is a mediator of what cannot be expressed.

The impulse for creativity can fade away just as easily as it arose if left without food.

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Not a single moment of creativity, even the initial moment of creativity, can occur without the work of imagination.

Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

Simplicity, truth and naturalness are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Study the science of art and the art of science.

Leonardo da Vinci

The art of living has always consisted mainly of the ability to look forward.

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov

Let your life be equal to you, let nothing contradict one another, and this is impossible without knowledge and without art, which allows you to know the divine and human.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from people's hearts.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Every true piece of music has an idea.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Others, who love their art, devote themselves entirely to their work, forgetting to wash themselves and eat. You value your nature less than an engraver values ​​engraving, a dancer values ​​dancing, a money lover values ​​money, an ambitious person values ​​fame. Does generally useful activity really seem to you less significant and less worthy of effort?

Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more reminiscent of the art of fighting than of dancing. It requires preparedness and resilience in the face of the unexpected and unexpected.

Marcus Aurelius

The artist's most important tool, which is formed through constant training, is faith in his ability to create miracles when necessary.

Mark Rothko

Art is jealous; it demands that a person devote himself entirely to it.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Music rules autocratically and makes you forget about everything else.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the hands of talent, everything can serve as a tool for beauty.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

I remember with horror how people who considered themselves educated raged against Wagner, calling his music cacophony. Obviously, every achievement must go through the ordeal of denial and ridicule.

Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich

A true artist must sacrifice herself to her art. Like a nun, she has no right to lead the life desired by most women.

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova

The spirit is the master, the imagination is the tool, the body is the obedient material. Each person has his own inner world, created by the power of imagination. Imagination is generated by the pure and strong desire of the heart. If this power is sufficient to illuminate every corner of this inner world, then everything that a person thinks about will take shape in his soul.

Paracelsus

Inspiration is the kind of guest who does not like to visit the lazy.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Everyone is capable of creating well only what the muse inspires him to do.

Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination...

The path to the abode of the muses, alas, is not wide and not straight.

Creativity is a continuation of peacemaking. The continuation and completion of world-making is a Divine-human work, God’s creativity with man, human creativity with God.
Nikolay Berdyaev

Creativity is the transition of non-existence into being through an act of freedom.
Nikolay Berdyaev

I only feel good when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Seeing and doing new things is a great pleasure.
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)

In the depths of man lies a creative force that is capable of creating what should be, which will not give us peace and rest until we express it outside of us in one way or another.
Johann Goethe

Life without work is shameful; work without creativity is not worthy of a person.
John Ruskin

Creation! Here is a great salvation from suffering, a great relief of life!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Joy is essential for creativity.
Edvard Grieg

To express all of yourself in your creation - is there a greater triumph for the creator?
Victor Hugo

To work means to create, and creativity is the only deep and real joy that a person can experience in this life.
Vincenzo Gioberti

Every person is a creator, for he creates something from various innate factors and capabilities.
Alfred Adler

The ability to create is a great gift of nature; the act of creativity, in the creative soul, is a great sacrament; a minute of creativity is a minute of great sacred rite.
Vissarion Belinsky

There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating.
Nikolay Gogol

Creativity... is an integral, organic property of human nature... It is a necessary accessory of the human spirit. It is as legitimate in a person, perhaps, as two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and forms a whole with him.
Fedor Dostoevsky

The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Fedor Dostoevsky

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist.
Anton Chekhov

Man was born for great joy, for unceasing creativity, in which he is God, for broad, free, unconstrained love for everything: for a tree, for the sky, for a person...
Alexander Kuprin

Only in creativity there is joy - everything else is dust and vanity.
Anatoly Koni

There is only one happiness: to create.
Romain Rolland

Creativity is the beginning that gives a person immortality.
Romain Rolland

To create - whether new flesh or spiritual values ​​- means to break free from the captivity of your body, it means to rush into the hurricane of life, it means to be the One who Is. To create means to kill death.
Romain Rolland

Only the one who creates lives. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are the joys of creativity: love, genius, action - these are discharges of power born in the flame of a single fire.
Romain Rolland

The key to unlocking your dreams is, first and foremost, creativity.
Zac Efron

Creativity is a special type of activity; it brings satisfaction in itself.
Somerset Maugham

I never felt age... If you have a creative job, you don't have age or time.
Louise Nevelson

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The act of creativity strikes the habit by overcoming everything in an original way.
George Lois

Joy can only be found in creativity - everything else is perishable and insignificant.
Anatoly Koni

Where there is life and freedom, there is room for new creativity.
Sergei Bulgakov

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. Yes, and surprises.
Julia Cameron


Mary Lou Cook

To have every reason for creativity, you need your life itself to be meaningful.
Henrik Ibsen

To create is nothing other than to believe.
Romain Rolland

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
Rita Mae Brown

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

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. If you want to be creative, you will have to get rid of all conditioning; otherwise your creativity will be nothing more than a copy, just a carbon copy. You can only be creative if you are an individual; you cannot create while remaining part of the crowd psychology.
Osho

Creativity is the scent of individual freedom.
This is a state of creativity. This can be called his main quality - to be in harmony with nature, to be in tune with life, with the universe.
Osho

Creativity is a continuation of peacemaking. The continuation and completion of world-making is a Divine-human work, God’s creativity with man, human creativity with God.
Nikolay Berdyaev

Creativity is the transition of non-existence into being through an act of freedom.
Nikolay Berdyaev

I only feel good when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Seeing and doing new things is a great pleasure.
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)

In the depths of man lies a creative force that is capable of creating what should be, which will not give us peace and rest until we express it outside of us in one way or another.
Johann Goethe

Life without work is shameful; work without creativity is not worthy of a person.
John Ruskin

Creation! Here is a great salvation from suffering, a great relief of life!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Joy is essential for creativity.
Edvard Grieg

To express all of yourself in your creation - is there a greater triumph for the creator?
Victor Hugo

To work means to create, and creativity is the only deep and real joy that a person can experience in this life.
Vincenzo Gioberti

Every person is a creator, for he creates something from various innate factors and capabilities.
Alfred Adler

The ability to create is a great gift of nature; the act of creativity, in the creative soul, is a great sacrament; a minute of creativity is a minute of great sacred rite.
Vissarion Belinsky

There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating.
Nikolay Gogol

Creativity... is an integral, organic property of human nature... It is a necessary accessory of the human spirit. It is as legitimate in a person, perhaps, as two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and forms a whole with him.
Fedor Dostoevsky

The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Fedor Dostoevsky

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist.
Anton Chekhov

Man was born for great joy, for unceasing creativity, in which he is God, for broad, free, unconstrained love for everything: for a tree, for the sky, for a person...
Alexander Kuprin

Only in creativity there is joy - everything else is dust and vanity.
Anatoly Koni

There is only one happiness: to create.
Romain Rolland

Creativity is the beginning that gives a person immortality.
Romain Rolland

To create - whether new flesh or spiritual values ​​- means to break free from the captivity of your body, it means to rush into the hurricane of life, it means to be the One who Is. To create means to kill death.
Romain Rolland

Only the one who creates lives. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are the joys of creativity: love, genius, action - these are discharges of power born in the flame of a single fire.
Romain Rolland

The key to unlocking your dreams is, first and foremost, creativity.
Zac Efron

Creativity is a special type of activity; it brings satisfaction in itself.
Somerset Maugham

I never felt age... If you have a creative job, you don't have age or time.
Louise Nevelson

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The act of creativity strikes the habit by overcoming everything in an original way.
George Lois

Joy can only be found in creativity - everything else is perishable and insignificant.
Anatoly Koni

Where there is life and freedom, there is room for new creativity.
Sergei Bulgakov

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. Yes, and surprises.
Julia Cameron


Mary Lou Cook

To have every reason for creativity, you need your life itself to be meaningful.
Henrik Ibsen

To create is nothing other than to believe.
Romain Rolland

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
Rita Mae Brown

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

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. If you want to be creative, you will have to get rid of all conditioning; otherwise your creativity will be nothing more than a copy, just a carbon copy. You can only be creative if you are an individual; you cannot create while remaining part of the crowd psychology.
Osho

Creativity is the scent of individual freedom.
This is a state of creativity. This can be called his main quality - to be in harmony with nature, to be in tune with life, with the universe.
Osho

In one of his many interviews, Kurt Cobain once shared the following: “I was always an outcast, and it really bothered me. But there was no desire to communicate with classmates or peers. And only many years later I understood why this happened - they were indifferent to creativity.” And even today, most people perceive creativity as a kind of cultural element, and creators as superhumans or crazy. Using quotes about creativity, we will try to shed some light on this topic by talking about where creativity comes from, what it is and who they are

What is creativity?

Beautiful quotes can sometimes tell a lot about what creativity really is. For some, this is a true act of love. Some people are sure that creativity is an innate character trait that cannot be taught. To understand the full range of opinions, let’s present them in the form of quotes about creativity:

  • “To create is to make thoughts easy by inventing new life possibilities.”
  • “The ability to be creative is a natural gift. It is akin to beauty or a strong voice. An innate ability can be developed, but no amount of effort will help you gain it.”
  • “The ability to be creative is a divine gift. The act of creativity is a great sacrament of the soul.”
  • “Creativity is the moment of the present in which the future is created.”
  • “Creativity is a feat that does not come without sacrifice.”

It is not simple

Creativity can be created in many ways, but at its core there will certainly be something personal. Mysterious aspirations and desires, protest against everyday life, words that will never be spoken. And the one who says that creating is easy is wrong. In fact, as Baurzhan Toyshibekov said: “Creativity is created from one portion of ink and three portions of sweat.” To create something outstanding, you need to put in maximum effort every day. Constantly develop and work on yourself.

The difficulties in creating works of art are best described by quotes about the work of famous philosophers:

  • Socrates: “Every creator is obliged to express his state of mind.”
  • Plato: “Anyone can be a creator if he has something that inspires him.”
  • Aristotle: “Art never says what is, it always shows what should be.”
  • Voltaire: “Creation speaks of its creator.”
  • Diderot: “The highest task of any creativity is to find the unusual in the ordinary and the ordinary in the fantastic.”

The life of a creator in exile

As Remarque said, creativity is always hidden under an unprepossessing shell. On the pages of history it is not often possible to meet a creative person who was always first in everything, lived a long and happy life, loved and was loved. Often, creators were betrayed more than once, expelled from their native country, not recognized during life, but praised after death. But they never gave up creating their works.

Once I asked a rhetorical question: “Why do kind, decent, creative people always give in to the gray masses?” It has always been and will be: creators are innovators. But everything new brings with it changes that are inconvenient and irritating, and therefore unacceptable at a certain time. Aphorisms about creativity can say a lot about how different types of art are born in such harsh conditions: from music to folk art.

Music, literature, painting

You can often find quotes about creativity that focus on one type of art, rather than the entire process as a whole. But if you think about it, if you replace the word “sketch” with “creativity”, the meaning of the phrase will not change. For example, here are the most common quotes:

  • “It’s hard to part with someone you love. The melancholy of an ordinary breakup passes through several written songs, and the longing of a broken heart passes through several written albums.”
  • “Every sketch, still life or landscape, is essentially a self-portrait.”
  • “If a person thinks clearly, he will write the same way, and if his thought is valuable, then his writing will be valuable.”

What should a creator be like?

We can talk for a long time about what the meaning of creativity is, where it comes from in this world and how it affects people. But it is important to know what real creators should be like: interested, striving for perfection and not ready to admit their masterpieces are ideal. This is exactly what these quotes about creativity say:

  • “Creativity is a mystery that the creator asks himself.”
  • “Any creativity begins as a desire for self-improvement and holiness.”
  • “Creativity helps preserve personality.”
  • “To be the greatest master is to not recognize your perfection.”

What do celebrities say about creativity?

Celebrities also often talk about creativity. Most of their ideas are based on personal experience and observations. The most famous statements belong to designers, models, and actors. Their work is a little further from the stereotypical understanding, but nevertheless they know about it first-hand:

  • Igor Moiseev: “I am happy when success comes in creativity, because I am glad to do what I am naturally destined to do.”
  • Giorgio Armani: “You need to be bold in your ideas. When I experimented with cuts, no one recognized me, but over time, my crazy ideas became fashion.”
  • Bruce Lee: “The creator creates himself, and this is much more important than the established system.”
  • Tyra Banks: “No matter what you want to become, the most important thing is to pursue your passion, not the money.”
  • Barbara Palvin: “To achieve your dreams, you first need to be able to create.”

Folk art

Russian creators also brought a lot to the world. Russian creativity is distinguished by its originality and dissimilarity from the creations of foreign geniuses. And for this, their works are respected and perceived as a unique heritage of the Russian people, which reflects culture, mentality, basic life values ​​and priorities. As Fadeev said: “A person manifests himself best through work and creativity.” And in a society where there are people with a desire to improve themselves, sooner or later such a simple phenomenon as folk art will appear. Quotes about folk art have never taken a leading position in terms of quantity, but nevertheless, several apt statements can be found:

  • “Each type of creativity has its own joys, the main thing is to learn to take yours where it is.”
  • “In creativity it is much easier to stop the moment.”
  • “The highest recognition of a creator is when his work becomes popular.”
  • “Folk art is intended to ensure that the beauty of the world, the call to fight, the breadth of the human soul and reason prevail over darkness.”
  • “There is room for creativity in every job.”
  • “Creativity is all the joy in life. To create means to overcome death.”
  • “If the rooster had creative freedom, he would still continue to crow.”
  • “A person who does not create is worse than a plant that gives oxygen.”

Bottom line

Beautiful quotes about creativity can be summed up in one simple word - freedom. From all the examples presented, it can be noted that creativity does not imply submission to norms. It is an act of free thought and action. The creator notices a special charm in everyday life and tries to present it to people. And each of them always puts into their works the memory of what they love.

They say that anyone can become a creator. Every person has the power to bring something innovative, interesting, and complementary to the world. But if the person himself does not say: “Yes, I can do it. I will create, no matter what!” - nothing will work out for him. Creativity is freedom, which begins with self-confidence and an absolute willingness to go against the system, defending your position.