Creativity Quotes · Page 198

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

— Kanye West

My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

— Albert Einstein

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)”

— by Jeffrey M. Elliot

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

— Phil Cousineau

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

— Arthur Rimbaud

I was very creative when I was a kid. Doing so much stuff, I think that creates a different coordination.

— Gael Monfils

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

— Cyndi Lauper

It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it…

— Phil Elverum

When I've lost my way or when I am confused about a path to take, I remember that most answers I need…

— Steve Goodier

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great…

— Marc Randolph

I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I…

— Barbara Corcoran

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the…

— Charles Dickens

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

— Peter Drucker

“If the precious, limited hours of my day are used bit by bit in scanning information, I will have less and less…

— Sally Clarkson

“Everyone has creative potential. Creativity involves using your imagination and inventiveness. Your unique expression of yourself is your creativity...Creativity can be magic…

— Patch Adams

“I'm convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive - that challenge conventional thinking - and end in…

— Nathaniel J. Wyeth

I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother…

— Jared Leto

Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them.…

— Charles Bukowski

I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point…

— Adam Fuss

I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a…

— Linus Torvalds

Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you…

— Jim James

I'm grateful people think I'm beautiful or sexy, and I suppose it's better than the alternative, but I do try to fight…

— Katherine Heigl

If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be…

— Austin Kleon

When love is in action creativity has no limits we're liberated and illuminated with the truth.

— Jeremy Limn

Everything I do has a purpose for my goal, which is to create a buzz.

— Drew McIntyre

“Traditions stifle imagination. They are the invisible destroyer of dreams.”

— Jen Fraser

I'm controlling over anything I create. I'm very precious about it.

— Sam Esmail

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I've just always been creative and my mom gave me the freedom to be an artist ever since I was young.

— Doechii

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

— Norman Douglas

“Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.”

— Pearl Zhu

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

— Lewis Carroll

I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it.

— Juergen Teller

I'm not a fashionista - I adore creative and original people with their own style.

— Gabriella Wilde

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

— Theodore Levitt

“Thank you for sending my imagination to a place it can never return from.”

— Richelle Mead

“The older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

— Lee Iacocca