Creativity Quotes · Page 150

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

— Erskine Caldwell

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.

— Henry Heimlich

“Here’s what I respect: creating something meaningful and then presenting it to the world,”

— Cal Newport

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

— John Maeda

“Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.”

— Steve Aylett

It's about being creative and drawing on who you are when you wake up, and expressing yourself through fashion.

— Future

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

— Julia Cameron

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

— Shepard Fairey

“The creative person has to dissolve all should and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole…

— Osho

“There is a quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply read it.”

— Rick Riordan

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's…

— Chris Kattan

“The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language...”

— Martha Beck

My brother (Bruno Mars) is as smart as he is because a lot of things he's doing, creativity wise, our Dad used…

— Eric Hernandez

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely…

— Jonah Lehrer

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“FV: Hasn't all art, in a way, submitted to words - reduced itself to the literary...admitted its failure through all the catalogues…

— Mort W. Lumsden

You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments…

— Tony Kushner

I try to create something that draws you in without overthinking it. Something that resonates with you automatically that you don't have…

— Frank Dukes

The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special…

— Gerry Spence

“one might argue that the Mandeville author’s original deception was not a simple trick for its own sake, but rather that it…

— Iain Macleod Higgins

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things…

— Erik Erikson

I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other…

— Don Hertzfeldt

Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during…

— Lewis Hyde

“Though my body gets older, I still commune with the child inside.”

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

“This story inspires me to contribute with something unique and exciting for my time.”

— Simon Zingerman

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

— John Hockenberry

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

— J. J. Abrams

I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.

— Post Malone

Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge.

— Ernie J Zelinski

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

— Tim Berners-Lee

“Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.”

— Dan Brown

Athens is an amazing city for creativity. I bought a house there. A little, tiny place.

— Cindy Wilson

Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.

— Varun Dhawan

“You are creating a new reality for yourself, brick by brick.”

— Lee Vickers

You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.

— Hal Elrod

If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.

— Jon Gordon

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

— Manika

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

— John Daido Loori

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

— Diane Ackerman