Creativity Quotes · Page 139

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

— John Updike

I don't think I can create anything of lasting value unless it comes from the heart.

— Rodney Crowell

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

— Twyla Tharp

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

— Napoleon Hill

Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

— Joseph Haydn

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Creative solutions come at drastic times, if you open your mind to the possibilities. Free yourself to take a chance!”

— Julieanne O'Conner

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on…

— Chad Smith

I try to stay true to my style, and I understand the foundation of my style and where it came from. But…

— Rakim

“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up…

— William Shakespeare

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes…

— Jonathan Ive

We expect our media to lead and open doors for our young talents. As we need creative engineers, doctors and managers, we…

— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn…

— Douglas Everett

I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the…

— Nicola Roberts

Possibility and impossibility of things depends upon your flexibility and acceptance of reality: A bright future always knocks; when you start believing…

— Asif Z Warsi

“If a man has everything money can buy, yet woos you—with the complexity of a rose, the subtlety of poetry and prose…

— Reena Doss

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the…

— Tennessee Williams

“How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very…

— Andre P. Brink

In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry…

— Deepak Chopra

“I find it interesting that by saying to someone “you just realized that you’re breathing”, you immediately cause them to go from…

— Justin Wetch

When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the…

— Talib Kweli

The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's…

— David Lloyd

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not…

— Shahid Kapoor

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

— Eric Maisel

“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

— Sonnia Kemmer

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

— Ken Robinson

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world.

— Bryant McGill

Creating content and never being afraid to try something new have been my two hallmarks.

— Willam Belli

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

— Criss Jami

“To live a creative life we must forget our fear of being wrong.”

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

All thought, good and bad, is creative and tends to lead to a material thing.

— Senoraroy

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

— Toni Morrison

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

— Brendon Urie

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

— David Byrne

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

— Adolf Hitler

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

— Carl Jung

I like to be a creative variable rather than sticking to a dogma.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

— Stephen King