Creativity Quotes · Page 127

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

— Robert Collier

I don't like to plan, I create whatever I want whenever I want.

— Mindy Morin

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

— Marshall Cook

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

— Hideo Kojima

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

— Igor Stravinsky

A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

— George Saunders

Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the…

— Felicity Jones

“...innovation is highly context-dependent. It is a response to a particular problem at a particular time and place. Take away the context,…

— Matthew Syed

You will learn to enjoy the process... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of…

— Julia Cameron

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create…

— Jay S. Walker

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and…

— Marianne Williamson

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

— Neri Oxman

“one’s right-brain controls your insight, artistic ability, imagination, musical creativity, three dimensional vision, and left hand control.”

— Lee Vickers

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

— Bill Moyers

“… a move from the idea of an architect as expert problem-solver to that of architect as citizen sense-maker; a move for…

— Jeremy Till

“A well-designed life is a life that is generative—it is constantly creative, productive, changing, evolving, and there is always the possibility of…

— Bill Burnett

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,…

— Yukio Mishima

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and…

— Kate Forsyth

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The data on the economic utility of artists is really, really strong. Artists and entrepreneurs are the same people...and of course entrepreneurs…

— Jordan Peterson

Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

— Paula Scher

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

— Elaine Dundon

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

— George Lois

“We consumer and become exactly what we create. In all times.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

We need to create shareholder value. That is why I am here. That is what I need to do.

— Isabelle Kocher

Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.

— Zig Ziglar

“Writing a novel takes creativity. Publishing it takes courage”

— M.L. Kilian

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

— Denzel Washington

We tried to take different roads to get to where we wanted to go to satisfy our creativity as artists.

— B-Real

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

— Danai Gurira

According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

— Robert Genn

“Creativity is like a snoring husband, it won't let you sleep.”

— Barbara Alfaro

“Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.”

— Conan O'Brien

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

— Robin Trower

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

— Scott Adams

“You create your own life by how you see the world and your place in it;”

— Ken Robinson