Creativity Quotations

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Art is what you can get away with.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

I like looking at a future where we're expanding our creativity and brightening our lives. I believe that eventually we'll get to a point where we'll be able to live indefinitely through our technology.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

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.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

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

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

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.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.

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

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

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

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

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

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyones ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.