Creativity Quotes

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
Jean Houston

Life, Experience, Human

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
Paul Wellstone

Teacher, Learning, Children

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.
Charles Mingus

Simple, Hard, Different

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo May

Death, Live, Human

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.
Julia Margaret Cameron

Power, Angry, Someone

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
Doug Coupland

Fake, Sexual, Competence

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Bryant H. McGill

Greatest, Liberty, Expression

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale

Natural, Enthusiasm, Extension

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins

Life, Age, Judge

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
William Shatner

Life, Energy, Key

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer

Nature, Order, Ability

Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
Gilda Radner

Love, Horny, Eventually

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
Deepak Chopra

Moving, Universe, Direction

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
Daniel Radcliffe

Love, Poetry, Saying

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.
Mary Garden

Anger, Moving, Else

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
Daisaku Ikeda

Life, Give, Effort

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
Matt Groening

Life, Yourself, Important

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

Nature, Exploring

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike

Creative, Name, Cares

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
William Shatner

Star, Involved, Enjoyed

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.
Demi Lovato

Escape, Demons, Inner

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.
Paul Ryan

Free, Moral, Lives

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land

Stupidity, Sudden, Cessation

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock

Mind, Clean, Corner

I go wherever my creativity takes me.
Lil Wayne

Takes, Wherever

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.
Scott Adams

Try, Stuff, Elusive

In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.
Scott Adams

Fact, Company, Rid

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
Wentworth Miller

Great, Book, Story

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.
Jeff Bridges

Different, Find, Ways

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Susan B. Anthony

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us