Creativity Quotes

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

Art takes nature as its model.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

You will learn to enjoy the process... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.

Innovation = Inspiration + Perspiration + Perseverance.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

We're democratizing the tools of creativity.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.