Creativity Quotes

Small: On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover.
"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
Small: Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. Its rage, its creativity, its pain, its hurt, but its the opportun
Kanye West
"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
Small: The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, What a
Kanye West
"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
Small: And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imaginati
Sylvia Plath
"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
Small: I love to cook comfort food. Ill make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The rit
Reese Witherspoon
"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
Small: Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep"
Scott Adams, Cartoonist
Small: Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm
Earl Nightingale
"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm"
Earl Nightingale, Writer
Small: Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and pol
Al Gore
"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
Small: And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek
"And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek"
William Shatner, Actor
Small: Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution
Keenen Ivory Wayans
"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution"
Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian
Small: Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral lead
"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
Small: I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better
Josh Lucas
"I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better"
Josh Lucas, Actor
Small: Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, its essence t
"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
Small: My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be
Robert Mapplethorpe
"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be"
Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer
Small: I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity
"I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity"
Jim Capaldi, Musician
Small: Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about
"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
Small: True creativity often starts where language ends
"True creativity often starts where language ends"
Arthur Koestler, Novelist
Small: Dont think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. Its self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You
Ray Bradbury
"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
Small: Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced crea
William Bernbach
"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
Small: You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... theres a lot of creativity and brain working.
Gary Coleman
"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
Small: Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous
"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous"
Bill Moyers, Journalist
Small: It seems theres a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity
"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity"
Nicholas Lea, Actor
Small: Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar
"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar"
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Statesman
Small: Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we
"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
Small: Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten
William Bernbach
"Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten"
William Bernbach, Businessman
Small: I feel Ive been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. Thats why Ive been able to keep going
"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
Small: Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work"
Rita Mae Brown, Writer
Small: I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writers creativity and the
Laura Hillenbrand
"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
Small: Creativity shouldnt be following radio it should be the other way around
Herbie Hancock
"Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around"
Herbie Hancock, Musician
Small: Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music
Herbie Hancock
"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music"
Herbie Hancock, Musician
Small: Im experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity
Christina Aguilera
"I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity"
Christina Aguilera, Musician
Small: I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment
"I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment"
David Rockefeller, Businessman
Small: Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and re
"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
Small: I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. Im a weird k
"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
Small: A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integr
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
"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
Small: Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity
"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
Small: The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living
"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
Small: I believe in the power of innovation and creativity. We need to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneu
Volodymyr Zelensky
"I believe in the power of innovation and creativity. We need to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Ukraine"
Volodymyr Zelensky, President
Small: I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability t
"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
Small: Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected
"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