Creativity Quotes
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My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others.
Karl Iagnemma
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I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
Gary Hume
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A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we're missing out on the full range of talent.
Peggy Johnson
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Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking.
George Lois
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale
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I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.
Sadie Jones
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Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.
Katrina Lake
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A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
David Lynch The Platters
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Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Donatella Versace
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I still don't know how to jump-start a car, even though it's been told to me a million times. But I do love thinking about how creativity works.
Dan Trachtenberg
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
Pat Metheny
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What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
Bruce Lee
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I think for the women of today, because we work and go around a lot, Armani is ideal - simple and elegant at the same time. It's not eccentric, and everything he does is very subtle. For the evening, I like Gianfranco Ferre. There's a lot of fantasy and creativity in his clothes.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.
Jane Siberry
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Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
James Altucher
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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.
Yoko Ono
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
Damon Knight
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There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.
Frank Abagnale
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Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
Idris Elba
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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
Pablo Picasso
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I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.
Jacob Whitesides
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I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.
Haris Pasovic
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Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
Alex Grey