Creativity Quotes

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

Art is a subset of creativity.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.