Creativity Quotes

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Take No as a question.

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?

We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.

You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

I associate creativity with independent music.

Every production must resemble its author.

America's companies are built to destroy creativity.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word.

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.

Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong.

Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.

Creativity doesn't just happen - you make it happen. Changing daily routines is one way to access creativity.

Creativity isn't magic. It's achievable.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge.

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.