Creativity Quotes · Page 143

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

— Julia Child

“The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.”

— Paul Graham

For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.

— Daniel H. Pink

“We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.”

— James C. Emlund

“Creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better.”

— Susan Cain

My goal is to create an image that would remind you of something that you haven't seen before.

— Anonymous

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

— William Pollard

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

— Jiang Wen

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

— Leonard Bishop

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

— Jane Hirshfield

“Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have…

— Mr. Carmack

For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's…

— Washed Out

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and…

— Eric Hoffer

All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

— Martin Villeneuve

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an…

— Henry Miller

“There had always been a conflict in me between mystery and meaning. I had pursued tha latter, worshipped the latter as a…

— John Fowles The Magus

“When creative imagination is used to improve your awareness of your true nature in relationship to the Infinite, the work is done…

— Roy Eugene Davis

People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the…

— Jaden Smith

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go…

— Malcolm Mclaren

I have learned that human beings are not searching for philosophies, even though it may seem that way sometimes. We are searching…

— Stephen Schwartz

“This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its…

— Walter Isaacson

Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow…

— Donald Rumsfeld

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not…

— Margaret Mead

Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling.

— Nell Scovell

Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

— Pope Francis

“Creativity is the art of being yourself through all the possible means and ways.”

— Yasser Kashef

“Create your own desires for what you want your world to be.”

— Steven Redhead

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

— Kary Mullis

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

— Henri Matisse

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

— Anna Sui

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

— Alex Grey

If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

— Fred Wilson

“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

— Miles Davis

“Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“Great minds think alike, but creative minds think like no other.”

— Emma Anderson

“We have a choice to live in the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Darkness.”

— Mommy Moo Moo

“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.”

— C. Toni Graham

“None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.”

— Pearl Zhu