Creativity Quotes

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.

Creativity healed me. I don't know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing.

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.

Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

I think creativity becomes really beautiful and magical when you allow it to do what it's needing you to do.

There is no creativity without vulnerability.

Clothes are functional but that doesn't mean they're not a form of art. They're just another way to express creativity. It could be film, it could garment.

Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

It's easier to think outside the box if you don't draw one around yourself.

Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.

I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.

Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.