Creativity Quotes · Page 231

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

— Vijay

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.

— Rick Warren

To live a creative life we must let go our fear of making mistakes...

— Ritu Ghatourey

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

— Sid Sriram

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

— Condoleezza Rice

The way creative people live is different from people who don't do anything creative.

— Kerli

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

— Carol Bly

“For me it's all about creating chaos.. and then getting away with it.”

— Hafsa Shah

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

— Richard Price

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes…

— Nadine Gordimer

Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its…

— John Kao

“We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of…

— Danielle Ganek

When a well-known creative person such as me is perceived to have created a knockoff of my own previous work, such a…

— Saul Bass

I want to create amazing art and content that inspires people to want to be the best versions of themselves everyday, and…

— Rachele Brooke Smith

Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe…

— Ira Sachs

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from…

— Oliver Sacks

Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I may be weird, but creative wise I have the knowledge to know and believe in my heart that my weirdness makes…

— Henri Matisse

“Art is its own thing, and so is craft — and creativity is common to both, in the same way as its…

— Ivan Goncharov

An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection…

— Reggie Watts

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become…

— Kathy Acker

I'm happy to have L.A.M.B. participate in the PSP accessories show as I've always loved designing bags and accessories, It's all about…

— Gwen Stefani

Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights.…

— Eleanor Smeal

If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?

— Naguib Mahfouz

Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live…

— Gauri Khan

“The path you create then follow becomes the story of your life.”

— steven redhead

I really like the idea of creating a brand in one of the areas that I identify myself the most.

— Aryna Sabalenka

“Sometimes feeling blocked is simply a sign that we need to wait and let the natural course of events to unfold.”

— Laurie E. Smith

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

— Edmund Wilson

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

— Oscar Wilde

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

— Frank Barron

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

— Harold Rosenberg

“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

— James Murphy

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

— Pharrell Williams

“Creativity leads others to where I lead you, to an unseen beauty, so ineffable its very beauty destroys itself...”

— Fola

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

— Charles Baudelaire

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

— Ellen Langer

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

— Andreja Pejic