Creativity Quotes

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I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't… — Hal Elrod
Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one. — Charles Revson
There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity. — Lee Hammond
Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying… — J. Robbins
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do.… — Ben Stiller
One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we… — Stephen Elop
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation?… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze. — Albert Einstein
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism… — Robert Frost
If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending… — Dalai Lama
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty,… — Joseph Conrad
I'm happy to have L.A.M.B. participate in the PSP accessories show as I've always loved designing bags and accessories, It's all about creativity at the… — Gwen Stefani
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible. — Georges Braque
Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how… — Pablo Neruda
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can… — Jacques Barzun

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