Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids, and archaeological research has showed us this, had little… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions. — Antonio Gaudi Copy Share Image
Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“We can, as Martha Nussbaum (2010) suggests, benefit from the enlarged and varied imagination that literature, films, and other cultural products afford… — Gloria Wekker Copy Share Image
Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
“Make an Inventory of Your Creative Imaginings What are the things you really might want to do someday if you have the… — David Allen Copy Share Image
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Think about your favourite work and your creative heroes. What did they miss? What didn't they make? What could've been made better?… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings.… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically,… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process. — Don Farrell Copy Share Image
Both my parents and sister are visual artists. That skipped me over completely. I can't draw a straight line. I've found other… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
“To summarize, here’s our checklist for creating a successful idea: a Simple Unexpected Concrete Credentialed Emotional Story.” — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked… — Dewey Redman Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself. — Teresa Amabile Copy Share Image
We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Cultivating innovative thinking starts at the top. Leaders can foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creativity and experimenting with new ideas. — Lynne Doughtie Copy Share Image
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Negative thinking is as important as creative thinking... because if creative thinking invented the airplane, then negative thinking invented parachute! — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity,… — Randall E. Stross Copy Share Image
I think you have to be so indulgent in creativity in that, if you're happy, it's successful. If it's then financially successful,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood)… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about… — Shary Boyle Copy Share Image
