Creativity Quotes · Page 217

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

— Mary Karr

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“Imagination without vision, is like a brand with no passion”

— Jaco Snoek

“You are God's chisel; it is you He uses to create masterpieces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

My process of working is that I don't create a picture, I find it.

— Sante D'Orazio

“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.”

— Jamie L. Harding

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

— Herbie Hancock

I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.

— Zoe McLellan

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original…

— Jakob Bohme

I am a creative person, and knew my bigger picture would be writing, directing, and producing; that's what I've always thought I…

— Julia Fox

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that…

— Abigail Washburn

“Storytelling is a creative way to engage a young child who is not ready to read books. Imagination is the key to…

— Cassie Pope

If 'Nevada' was an original for a certain scene of trans writing, 'Stone Butch Blues' is an original in literature, no qualifications.

— Torrey Peters

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way…

— Marilyn Butler

Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can…

— Robert M. Pirsig

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the…

— Kevin Roberts

“Why Dream? Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to…

— Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK

The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting…

— Jay Shetty

I think in a creative effort, in any creative effort, you need to, people need to be able to be taking risks…

— Brian Henson

Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be…

— John Kao

“There is a speculative battle innate to imagination this much we know, yet let us not ‘bear the wounds’2 of battles’ avoided.…

— Anonymous

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than…

— Chuck Barris

To me, the coolest riffs are composed of two guitar parts that interlock like gears. You need both parts to make whole.…

— Richard Lloyd

“The image of God is to be seen in us—as it was in Jesus—equally in our active lives, in our work and…

— Michael Mayne

Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.

— Dan Fante

Be creative with today's solutions without creating tomorrow's problems.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“In your lifetime, if you can come up with one original idea, you have accomplished a great deal.”

— Max Roach

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

— Wilbur Smith

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

— Jack White

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

— Julia Cameron

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

— Rajneesh

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

— Demi Moore

“Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.”

— Pat Conroy

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

— Sonny Rollins

During isolation, one can bring a different approach to the creative process.

— Rosalia

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

— Cate Blanchett

To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.

— Naomi Cleaver

We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.

— Marilyn Ferguson

“Create some clear space and then you will know exactly what to do.”

— Bryant McGill