Creativity Quotes

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Creativity is basically subversive. . . . — Dan Wieden
The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think. — Jerome Bruner
If you want to be a creative person, then youâ€™re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isnâ€™t a… — Alec Soth
Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity. — Viola Spolin
The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially… — Jerzy Grotowski
The heart of creativity is discipline. — William Bernbach
I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for… — Mark Hoppus
What attracted me was less art itself than the artistâ€™s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of… — Pierre Bonnard
It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck.… — Phil Jackson
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art… — Denis Diderot
What is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or mystical. It's something… — Dewitt Jones
I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in… — Michael Atiyah
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be… — Leonardo da Vinci
Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown,… — Augustus De Morgan
I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys… — Charles Dickens
Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence. — Erwin Schrodinger
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next… — Susan L. Taylor
Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes. — Stacy Allison
The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to… — Tom Peters

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