Creativity Quotes

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.

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

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

Creativity produces productivity.

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

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Creativity and love come from the same source.

I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.

Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.