Creativity Quotes · Page 235

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

“Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.”

— Pearl Zhu

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

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

— Wilbur Smith

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

— Max Roach

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

— Jack White

“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and…

— Alan Alda

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I…

— Joe Biden

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor…

— Muhammad Yunus

The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and…

— Michael J. Gelb

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and…

— Abby Lee Miller

It's one of the things I really admire about Sly - we were all allowed to use our creativity, to have freedom…

— Larry Graham

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does…

— Leo Burnett

“Your imagination is one of the most powerful tools available to the human mind. Encourage imagination, embrace it, and utilize it. There…

— Michael Alden

“Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that…

— Alex Abreu

Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in,…

— Susan L. Taylor

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion.…

— Max Beckmann

You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or…

— Andrew Hollander

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion…

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher…

— Eckhart Tolle

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know…

— Frank Gehry

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

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

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

— Mary Henle

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

— Nikki DeLoach

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than…

— John Lasseter