Creativity Quotes

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
Masaru Ibuka

Experience, Looking, Unexpected

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Human, Happen, Spirit

I try to stay focused on my creativity.
Christina Aguilera

Try, Stay, Focused

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

True, Soul, Essence

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.
Freddy Adu

Time, Fun, Playing

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot

Mistakes, Moving, Honest

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
Dave Eggers

Work, Busy, Same

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.
Otto Rank

Him, Soul, Become

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
Camille Paglia

Art, Rule, Cant

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Life, Work, Become

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Work, Care

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne

Once, Artist, Draw

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
Shania Twain

Attitude, Different, Made

Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
Shania Twain

Today, Fun, Forward

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Yoko Ono

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

Heart, Soul, Company

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
David Rockefeller

Art, Greatest, Level

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

Great, Moving, Enemy

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
Vidal Sassoon

Sense, Consider, Luckiest

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.
Mario Vargas Llosa

Good, Help, Cannot

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
Jack Welch

Human, Person, Idea

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
Ben Okri

Politics, Art, Impossible

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
Jackie Gleason

Life, Dreams, Power

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
Bill Moyers

Find, Marvelous, Mundane

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.
Julian Lennon

Between, Balance, Found

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang

Women, Wedding, Book

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown

Work, Trust, Hope

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
Joni Mitchell

War, Together, Free

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.
Lewis Mumford

Power, Art, Living

Share with your Friends

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

Arthur Balfour

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