Creativity Quotes

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

Why don't you make your whole body into a string and play the music of the vibratory electromagnetic self, which is your creativity, and project to the heart of another person?

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Creativity is the new literacy

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.