Quotes Archive
Explore our collection of quotes about boredom, creativity, and the art of doing nothing.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Boredom is nearly always essential to creativity... Boredom stimulates the search for better ways to things like nothing else does.
To be a decent writer, you have to be okay with either writing or doing absolutely nothing. I'm a firm believer that the only way to be creative is to sit around and do nothing until you get bored enough to entertain yourself.
There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the Muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations.
There's an element of boredom which is inseparable from the avoidance of too much excitement, and too much excitement not only undermines the health, but dulls the palate for every kind of pleasure, substituting titillations for profound organic satisfactions, cleverness for wisdom, and jagged surprises for beauty.
boredom is a partner with satisfaction and joy.