Creativity Quotes · Page 232

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

— Ernst Lubitsch

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

— Rickey Medlocke

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

— George Lois

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

— Annie Lennox

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

— Twyla Tharp

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

— Napoleon Hill

I don't think I can create anything of lasting value unless it comes from the heart.

— Rodney Crowell

“Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The…

— Henry Ford

“Digital CIOs shouldn’t classify creativity and logic as two completely different disciplines; they are interconnected and need to be mixed seamlessly.”

— Pearl Zhu

'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs…

— Mark Helprin

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very,…

— Samuel R. Delany

Enthusiasm creates excitement & derive energy to work on endeavour with motivation & creativity to make it a success story.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I…

— Evan Ross

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record…

— Bridget Kelly

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that…

— Lydia Davis

“McKee's a genius. And hillarious. You'll like him, too, Charles. He's all for originality, just like you. He says that we have…

— Donald Kaufman

“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by…

— Ayn Rand

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are times when I think being bipolar gives me the ability to see and want and write things that other people…

— Haroon Moghul

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And…

— Daniel Wu

“ List of Artists Who Created Fantasy Worlds to Try and Cure Bouts of Sadness 1. Italo Calvino 2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez…

— Shane Jones

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

— John Updike

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

— Keith Jarrett

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

— Eric Maisel

“Creative solutions come at drastic times, if you open your mind to the possibilities. Free yourself to take a chance!”

— Julieanne O'Conner

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

— Joseph Haydn

Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights.”

— Deborah Day

“Remember, God didn’t create us to go through this life alone.”

— Morris Fenris

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

— Brian Aldiss

“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.”

— Jyrki Vainonen

I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.

— Rhona Mitra

I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.

— Anita Sarkeesian

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

— Rodney Mullen

Being good is more important than being original. Originality is a product, not an intention.

— Paul Rand

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from…

— Kanye West