Creativity Quotes · Page 133

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

— Jonah Lehrer

“Create art. Not just an art, but thermo fucking nuclear art.”

— Randy Gage

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

— Georgina Chapman

I want to create the content I didn't have while growing up.

— Janet Mock

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

— Nikola Tesla

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

— Alethea Kontis

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

— Fannie Hurst

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

— Billy Crystal

My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you…

— Tom Anderson

I think a really great creative person is almost by nature incredibly curious and digging deeply into cultures and technologies and getting…

— Mark Parker

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

There are some really funny people doing creative stuff with social media, which is sadly where a lot of my attention goes.

— Scott Rogowsky

I've had a number of opportunities to hear Andrei Ryabov perform and I am amazed at the high level of creativity, technique…

— Gene Bertoncini

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the…

— Fausto Cercignani

Like any other creative person, I would make home videos, and I would make sketches with my friends, and I would make…

— Iliza Shlesinger

I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock…

— Ben Gibbard

“We think that all artists create their art for essentially the same reason—they have a view of the world that they want…

— Ken Hicks

“You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must be…

— A.S. Byatt

“We do not conquer life, no one can conquer what one cannot define, but at least it is there and it is…

— F. Sionil José

You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element…

— Emily Blunt

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are…

— Criss Jami

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy…

— Natalie Goldberg

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we…

— Tiesto

If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Brazilians are very creative, not only in football but in life as well.

— Gabriel Jesus

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

— Demetri Martin

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

— Victor Pinchuk

“If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.”

— Neil Gaiman

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

— Samantha Barks

I think clothing defined by gender limits your creativity in outfits.

— Alex Consani

Have the vision to create something wonderful, something that has true value forever.

— Steven Redhead

“Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.”

— Tom Boellstorff

I don't really engage much in the creative community. I just kind of keep to myself and do my work.

— Aesop Rock

“Creative people are both problem finders and problem solvers.”

— Pearl Zhu

“The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.”

— Lionel Suggs

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

— Taylor Swift

I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I…

— Riccardo Tisci

When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.

— Jeremy Gutsche

“there’s no word in the Tibetan language for “creativity” or “being creative.” The closest translation is “natural.”

— David Kelley