Creativity Quotes

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

Music has always been transnational.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

Have patience, and endure

There is a time and a place for creativity.

The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

Bugs Bunny is my muse.

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

Creativity is no big deal.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

Music will save the world.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.