Creativity Quotes · Page 133

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

— Frank Ocean

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

— Charlie Kaufman

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

— Richard Louv

“Regarding creating a new work..."Sometimes you have to beat it like a red-headed step-child.”

— John P. Sousa

If you're not creating waves, then you're not pushing enough.

— Jared Cohen

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

— James Taylor

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness.

— Sante D'Orazio

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

— Andre Maurois

Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and…

— Adam Grant

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then…

— Nicole Kidman

Too Blue is a fantastic band with great singing, great picking and large dollops of creativity. The album features beautifully clean production…

— Tony Trischka

I like when somebody is able to create their own universe, have a consistency to it and not break from character -…

— Russell Mael

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we…

— Erich Fromm

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us…

— Thomas Carlyle

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

— Billy Wilder

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or…

— Pearl S. Buck

In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of…

— Anjan Sundaram

There is an interesting and new way to be excited about the fashion world today maybe. The traditional path of fashion as…

— Guinevere Van Seenus

“Who made this woman? What cruel god put together the sweetest traits with this level of joyful filth? I’d never met anyone…

— C.D. Reiss

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues…

— Jeremy Collier

“After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths…

— Roman Payne

My very first movie, 'Mary Poppins,' which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to…

— Todd Haynes

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion,…

— Neil Strauss

“Creativity requires openness and growth mind to new experiences and explore new possibilities.”

— Pearl Zhu

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

— Merlin Mann

“We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

— Stephen King

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

— Feist

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

— Robert Greenberg

My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it.

— Christian Siriano

When you give something, just for the joy of creating, it always comes back on a much larger scale.

— Ji Lee

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

— Dogen

Be creative with life, you are the artist and the world is your picture.

— Victoria Dawn Monks

“Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.”

— Bonnie Kelso

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

— Leandra Medine

People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

— Richard Saul Wurman

Madonna was the original but now everyone is a Material Girl if they want to be.

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.

— Tony Gaskins

“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.”

— Psixomaxaristw