Creativity Quotes · Page 146

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

— Dewitt Jones

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

— Paulo Freire

I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

— Kool Keith

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

— Nancy Hale

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

— Edwin Catmull

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

— Will Self

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music…

— Martin Freeman

In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't…

— Scott Adams

To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think…

— Ken Robinson

I think you have to be able to connect with your own creativity, your own vision, and then make it strong together.…

— Robin Standefer

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative…

— Val Kilmer

“You have to hear this guy play. It's unreal, like he's telling a complete story in his solos. And it's a story…

— Ashley Cleveland

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or…

— Juno Temple

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a…

— Billy Corgan

On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its…

— Salvador de Madariaga

Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing…

— Brenda Ueland

“The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain.…

— Boris Pasternak

“Develop flourishing schools … The purpose of the education system should be to create capable and emotionally well-rounded young people who are…

— Nic Marks

Once youve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one…

— Slash

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the…

— Ellen Greene

Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path…

— Kevin Keck

“I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.

— Ian Mckellen

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

— Damon Albarn

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

— Judy Blume

If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.

— Mark Waid

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

— Richard Gurley Drew

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

— Michael Polanyi

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

— Anonymous

“For if u have positive attitude n creativeness u will always see a graveyard as a beautiful garden...”

— Sana

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

— Caroline Ghosn

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

— Sigmund Freud

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

— David Luiz

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

— Ziggy Marley

“Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

“While small wins mark progress, we must not overlook the necessity of identifying and rectifying poor behaviors.”

— Erick "The Black Sheep" G

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

— Colm Toibin

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson