Creativity Quotes

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. — George Bernard Shaw
Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life. — William Shatner
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek. — William Shatner
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. — George Bernard Shaw
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. — George Bernard Shaw
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we… — Aaron Siskind
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. — Jane Smiley
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. — W. Eugene Smith
Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers. — Wesley Snipes
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. — Susan Sontag
Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating… — Patti Stanger
When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they… — Paul Stanley
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. — John Steinbeck
The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears. — Dan Stevens
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. — Tom Stoppard
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the… — Tom Stoppard
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of… — Igor Stravinsky
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time. — Meryl Streep

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