Creativity Quotes

Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

If it works, it's obsolete.

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

Out of the bliss comes magic, wonderment and creativity.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Creativity is never too contrived.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Routine kills creative thought.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Play is just another version of work

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

You need to find a way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things