Creativity Quotes

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.

Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

The more you reason the less you create.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Creativity has a touch of the bizarre

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.