Creativity Quotes · Page 144

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

— Oscar de la Renta

“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.”

— Tom Robbins

When there's no boundaries, that's when you can get creative.

— Rose

“The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom.”

— Pearl Zhu

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

— Salman Rushdie

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

— Shia LaBeouf

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.

— Gavid Hood

We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

— Myles Munroe

I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think commercials get a bad rap, that there's no creativity to them, but I haven't found that to be entirely true.…

— Judith Hoag

“The opposite of creativity is compliance to external imposition, having for one reason or another to bend to the will of another.”

— Keith Oatley

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal…

— Chenjerai Hove

All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with…

— Stephen Covey

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes…

— Billy Collins

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of…

— Seth Gabel

I get total creative control when I'm in the studio now to do what I want to do. If I feel like…

— Killah Priest

“I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what…

— Lev Grossman

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or…

— Paul Rand

There's so much more work that goes into developing a makeup line than one would imagine. Personally, I like to be involved…

— Kat Von D

Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools…

— Ludwig von Mises

Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads…

— Robert Venosa

“In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the…

— Friedrich Schiller

“Indeed, very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the first phalange, the mesophalange, and the…

— José Saramago

The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Spiritual growth and creativity are two sides of the same coin.”

— Lada Ray

Being original only involves you being yourself, nothing more, nothing less.

— Anonymous

I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.

— Patty Griffin

“Only with pen and paper can you create something that doesn't really exist.”

— Decker Schutt

In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning.

— Rajneesh

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

— Julia Cameron

You are a more powerful creative being than you could have ever dreamed possible!

— Melanie Tonia Evan

“If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.”

— Kelly Bryson

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

— John Romero

“Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.”

— Suzy Kassem

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

— George Lois

Creativity is a game changer. That's true of society, in advertising and in life.

— David Droga

Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.

— Octavio Paz

“was so fundamental to creative work. Employees were spread out over four floors,”

— Ed Catmull

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

— John Hodgman