Creativity Quotes

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

"You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies"

Richard Price, Writer

"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity"

Jean Houston, Author

"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

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

Julia Cameron, Author

"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it"

Rita Dove, Poet

"Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness"

Julia Cameron, Author

"Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace"

Ron Kind, Politician

"Music. It's all creativity right here, right now"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work"

Jane Badler, Actress

"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth"

Tom Barrett, Politician

"You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity"

Patty Duke, Actress

"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, Author

"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

"What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity"

Brad Paisley, Musician

"But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within"

David Duchovny, Actor

"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"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, Designer

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

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"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

"Cooking is a way to express your creativity, your personality, your soul"

Gail Simmons, Author

"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, Musician

"What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity"

Lois Capps, Politician

"The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation"

Robert Iger, Businessman

"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, Photographer

"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity"

Jean Dubuffet, Artist

"My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

"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, Musician

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