Ability Quote by Shaun McNiff

“Creativity is an ability given to us at birth, and thankfully, it cannot be lost. Creativity only goes into hiding and lies dormant from…

— Dennis Kimbro

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

— Edward de Bono

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

— Maria Konnikova

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

— James Russell Lowell

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as…

— Frank X. Barron

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

— Bob Dylan

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

— Yoko Ono

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you…

— Daniel Tammet

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process…

— Julia Cameron

Creativity is the ability to bring life to what is not known.

— Danny Tagle