Creativity Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

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

I do not seek. I find.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Critique by creating.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Creativity is basically subversive. . . .

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

Diversity is a great force towards creativity.

I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

I really believe that fashion, and dressing up, is a great way for guys to express and interact with their creativity.

Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.