Creativity Quotes

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

We get educated out of creativity.

We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life.

You are creative. Your creativity may be in a deep sleep, but it is there. All you have to do is wake it up and put it to use.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.

You can never be too prepared. I don't believe creativity needs to come from chaos, I find it's easier to be creative when I'm really "ready".

Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

If the door is locked, try the window.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

The secret of success in business is creativity.

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.

Entrepreneurs have two basic assets: their creativity and their relationships.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.