Creativity Quotes · Page 195

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

— Max Beckmann

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

— Robin Sharma

I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

— Alice Childress

“It is the Shechina that funnels the waves of creative potential into a revealed, finite world.”

— Laibl Wolf

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

— Brian Stelfreeze

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

— Adam Braun

I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.

— Issey Miyake

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough…

— Dana Brunetti

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize…

— Archie Shepp

“Creativity is a matter of receptiveness and recognition. This cannot happen if you’re convinced the world revolves around you.”

— Ryan Holiday

“But when it comes to creativity, the unknown is not our enemy. If we make room for it instead of shunning it,…

— Ed Catmull

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't…

— Alex Abreu

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

— John Darnielle

You are creative. Your creativity may be in a deep sleep, but it is there. All you have to do is wake…

— Kevin Eikenberry

“If you believe the fearmongers, there never is a good time to start anything. Something is always wrong. There are always holes…

— Sean Patrick

In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees who will…

— Larry R. Thompson

“I have so many creative ideas pulsating in my brain that I don't know which one to start with. I have old…

— Sandra Proto

As an artist, i feel lucky to have been given the gift of creativity so that i may share my vision of…

— Romero Britto

To have the opportunity to be creative and clarify the nature of that creativity, there are definitely some long days, some 18-20…

— Devin Townsend

“If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the…

— Christopher Milne

My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For…

— Graciela Iturbide

Lee was very much his own person so it's impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the…

— Sarah Burton

“Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.”

— Aneta Cruz

“The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits.”

— Shirley Corder

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

— Luise Rainer

“It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.”

— C.A. Dawson Scott

“(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.”

— Sean O'Faolain

We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act.”

— Clay Shirky

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

— Saul Bellow

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy…

— Pat Schneider

When the opportunity is there, you have to let your creative juices start flowing and reach and grab for it.

— R-Truth

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

— Nadine Gordimer

“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!”

— Avijeet Das

“Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“so eager for a fairy tale, you create one where it doesn’t exist.”

— J.A. Huss

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“No matter what is doing the creating, I have to say that the giraffe and the rhinoceros are ridiculous.”

— Kurt Vonnegut