Creativity Quotes · Page 231

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

— Maya Angelou

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life

— Barthold Georg Niebuhr

“Plomer wrote, “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”

— Brené Brown

Sometimes the most powerful ideas come from simply combining two existing ideas nobody else ever thought to unite.

— Anonymous

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

— Marian Wright Edelman

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

— Shirley Williams

I find NY very inspiring, there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in NY like nowhere else.

— Charlotte Ronson

“Creativity is taking a simple thing and bringing it to life.”

— Emilie Barnes

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

— Anne Roiphe

Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not…

— Kesh

The fans - the Echelon - send in their pictures and they've been wrapped around my kit, as a kind of a…

— Shannon Leto

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical…

— Anonymous

Yosemite really brings out my creativity. It's such a powerful place, there's some sort of amazing energy going on that fuels me.

— Dean Potter

The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes…

— Nell Scovell

The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture…

— Lynn Coady

The message is that if you believe in what you create, it's enjoyable and people will follow. The talented mangaka should know…

— Tite Kubo

“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative…

— Michael Richardson

“The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him…

— George MacDonald

When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand…

— Twyla Tharp

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige…

— Verner Panton

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each…

— Margaret Halsey

It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think…

— Chase Jarvis

My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end.…

— Michael Kenna

Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that…

— Lucas Mann

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

— Laura Linney

As artists, we do our best to create things that say something and are powerful.

— Michele Lamy

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was…

— Marc Almond

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

— Sam Jaeger

“creativity is associative memory that works exceptionally well.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Everyone is talented, original and has something important to say.”

— Brenda Ueland

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

— Sue Monk Kidd

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

— Kate Baldwin

You don't have to feel like a waste of space, your original can not be replaced

— Katy Perry

That is really the freedom that allows you to create something that is exciting because who knows what's true?

— Eva Green

“Le mie orecchie sentono i colori ed i miei occhi vedono suoni.”

— Suzy Kassem

I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.

— Kris Kristofferson

Create an environment for people to fail, to learn, and to grow. Their creativity and productivity will increase.

— Anonymous

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

— John Otway

“He was humbled by her infinite love toward him - it shone through even in his afterlife.”

— H. L. Balcomb