Creativity Quotes

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment.

I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.