Creativity Quotes · Page 140

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.

— Tom Kelley

“To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.”

— Kaela Marooney

“Perhaps it is not creativity that is elusive, but that which makes this moment unforgettable.”

— Kaushik Ram

“Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker”

— Star Trek The Next Generation

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

— John Cleese

Everyone should in some way be creative, irrespective of the quality of that which he creates.

— Yehudi Menuhin

“I’m creative, I make up almost everything. But with all my creativity, I couldn’t make up with my wife.”

— Jarod Kintz

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't…

— Diana Rigg

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and…

— Marilyn Manson

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity…

— Jane Badler

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void.…

— Patti Smith

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity,…

— Brian Tracy

“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:…

— Mark Mathabane

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have…

— Rollo May

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage…

— William Pollard

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling…

— Lauryn Hill

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable,…

— Kevin Spacey

We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It's our school, our playground, our artist's studio. I…

— Shakti Gawain

“I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will…

— Khaled Hosseini

Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads…

— Maria Popova

“From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes.…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“The esthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic, like…

— James Joyce

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride.…

— Anonymous

Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

— Jerry Seinfeld

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.

— Jehan Fostanes Nayga

“Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.”

— Stephen King

We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.

— Harper Reed

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

— Julia Cameron

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

— Ansel Adams

To have produced a product where I had total creative control and see it flourish is like watching a baby grow.

— Karrueche Tran

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

— Rajneesh

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

— Jean Dubuffet

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

— Samuel Beckett

I always try to do something different and creative with my dress sense.

— Karishma Tanna

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

— Elie Tahari

“I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa.”

— Lance Conrad