Creativity Quotes

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More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator. — Margaret Atwood
I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity,… — Joe Locke
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence… — Eckhart Tolle
When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and… — Twyla Tharp
Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost… — Twyla Tharp
One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work. — Henri Matisse
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars. — Edward de Bono
Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness. — Oliver Sacks
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy,… — Julia Child
bizarreness masqueraded as creativity. — Edward Gibbon
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment. — Abraham Maslow
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything. — Abraham Maslow
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty,… — Abraham Maslow
People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward… — Chogyam Trungpa
I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Creativity is no big deal. — Natalie Goldberg
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. — Marcel Duchamp
Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity. — Joyce Carol Oates
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life,… — Ingmar Bergman
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see… — Paul Klee

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