Creativity Quotes

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

All change begins with someone having a thought.

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.

The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

Written reports stifle creativity.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

Creativity is really at the center of what I do, it's a mix of creativity, innovation and savoir faire that creates magical products.

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

The enemy of fear is creativity.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce.

One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.