Creativity Quotes

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The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled?… — Abraham Maslow
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions:… — Mark Rothko
If youâ€™re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity — Randy Pausch
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the… — Madeleine L'Engle
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring… — Paulo Freire
By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them. — Christian Dior
Another word for creativity is courage. — Henri Matisse
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the… — Anais Nin
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy,… — Neil Gaiman
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates… — Sam Harris
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning… — Rick Riordan
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind. — Eckhart Tolle
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. — Joyce Carol Oates
My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto. — Ram Dass
He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought,… — Christopher Paolini
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your… — Orson Scott Card
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. — Chuck Palahniuk
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking — Albert Einstein
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. — Confucius

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