Creativity Quotes

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

"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

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

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"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 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

"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

"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

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"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

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

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"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

"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

"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

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

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"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"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"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

"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

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"I believe in the power of innovation and creativity. We need to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Ukraine"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them"

Daniel Smith, Politician

"True creativity often starts where language ends"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation"

James Daly, Actor

"I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it"

Florence King, Writer

"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility"

Holly Near, Musician

"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise"

Julia Cameron, Author

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