Creativity Quotes

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.

Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

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.

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

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.

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

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.

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

Human creativity uses what is already existing and available and changes it in unpredictable ways.

Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Science is global, but solution is local.

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.