Creativity Quotes

"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

"I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field"

Scott Bakula, Actor

"I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist"

LL Cool J, Musician

"I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless"

Billy Sherwood, Musician

"It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter"

Brian Aldiss, Writer

"Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth"

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, Businessman

"Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards"

Shirley Williams, Politician

"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm"

Jim Gilmore

"I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity"

Carole King, Musician

"He lives with his creativity in high gear"

John Travolta, Actor

"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, Writer

"But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance"

William J. Wilson

"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable"

William Pollard, Clergyman

"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, Musician

"If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible"

Ben Okri, Poet

"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity"

Robert Evans, Director

"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to"

Greg Anderson, Athlete

"Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame"

Giacomo Meyerbeer, Composer

"We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine"

Tony Hsieh, Businessman

"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"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, Musician

"It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity"

Peter Bart, Editor

"Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot"

Michael Mann, Director

"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life"

Daisaku Ikeda, Writer

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity"

Charles Mingus, Musician

"When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway"

Paul Stanley, Musician

"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"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, Writer

"What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things"

Suzanne Somers, Actress

"I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

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