Creativity Quotes · Page 250

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

— Vilem Flusser

“When your resources are focused on what has been you cannot create all that can still be.”

— Toni Sorenson

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

— Ozzy Osbourne

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

— Ben Shahn

You always have to start on the foundation, to create the building.

— Alyssa Tillmon

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

— Christina Aguilera

“Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy.…

— Matt Smith

Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because…

— Jonathan Demme

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a…

— Fran Tarkenton

May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being. May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity. may your heart…

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It was almost like I gravitated toward the people who were encouraging me to be like myself and to be creative and…

— Tobin Heath

“I knew then that the fewer items I was acquiring, dusting, packing, moving, and lugging around in life would free up my…

— Dorothy Breininger

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity…

— Yoko Ono

What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that…

— Rodney Mullen

Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the…

— John Quincy Adams

You must set up measurement of results and celebrate small victories as you go along. I have observed that any creativity initiative…

— Michael Ray

Creativity has three layers; the ultimate is the mystic: he lives in a climate of creativity. The poet, once in a while,…

— Rajneesh

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

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out,…

— David Brin

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but…

— Northrop Frye

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

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

— Twyla Tharp

Create your own tomorrows with your thoughts and actions - today.

— Catherine DeVrye

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

— David Cohen

“Beyond your wildest imagination, there is something worth working for.”

— Gordon Attard

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too…

— Lynn Nottage

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

— Carl Rogers

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

— Anonymous

The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge.

— Michael Bell

“As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.”

— Michael Houbrick

“Craziness peeped through my creative mind and she called me crazy.”

— Kelly Iyogun

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

— Jerry Bruckheimer

Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.

— Neale Donald Walsch

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

— Mother Teresa

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

— Patti Smith

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

— George Henry Lewes