Creativity Quotes

Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Imitation is suicide.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang, that was the most creative moment of all.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

You can't put a price tag on creativity

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

You lose it if you talk about it.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare My business is to create.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitude.