On Creativity

​Whenever I suspect that my creativity is ebbing I go back to what other masters of creativity have written about their own thoughts on this topic.

Take for instance Isaac Newton who wrote “I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

• Herman Melville wrote “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
• John Stuart Mill “That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.”
• Alfred de Musset “How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception.”
• M.C. Escher “He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.”
• Marvin Minsky “You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”
• Berthold Auerbach “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
• Jim Goodwin “The impossible is often the untried.”
• Albert Einstein “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Please humor me…Art Fettig “I don’t ever want to be what I want to be. There is always something new out there, waiting just for me.

One more time…Art Fettig “Let that little kid come out in me. Let me chase a butterfly, let me climb a tree. Let me mess my hair up and giggle out with glee. Oh  Lordie, let that little kid come out in me.”

Do your own search online for “Quotes on creativity” then ponder.  See if your imagination and your courage to use your imagination doesn’t come alive and demand you to think a new thought.