Creativity Quotes

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Infinite Mind will put ideas into your mind, words into your mouth, creativity into your hands, boundless opportunity before you, and guiding light on your way.

I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Creativity is great-but not in accounting.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

The more you think, the more time you have.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

Love is a key ingredient for creativity.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

Every woman has the power to seduce the world with her uniqueness, passion and creativity.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.