Creativity Quotes

"The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"Trying to force creativity is never good"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity"

Mark Udall, Politician

"Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music"

Kanye West, Musician

"The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'"

Kanye West, Musician

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster"

Al Gore, Vice President

"And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek"

William Shatner, Actor

"Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal"

Brian May, Musician

"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"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, Novelist

"True creativity often starts where language ends"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"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"

Gary Coleman, Actor

"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

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

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Statesman

"Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes"

Neil Peart, Musician

"Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going"

Robin Trower, Musician

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

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

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"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, Politician

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

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"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, Sociologist

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age"

Sophia Loren, Actress

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