Creativity Quotes

• Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Music
  • Creativity
  • Same

• When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we escape our self-conscious selves.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Time
  • Work
  • Creativity

• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

  

  Frank Capra
  • Trying
  • Creativity

• 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
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Creativity

• Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Creativity
  • Production
  • Synthesis

• 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 sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

  

  Karel Appel
  • Freedom
  • Fighting
  • Wilderness

• 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
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

  

  Jim Gilmore
  • People
  • Creativity

• The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Art
  • Memories
  • Ability

• When I look at pictures from when I was younger, I think, "Holy crap, what the hell was I wearing?" I've made it a real mission to fully understand what fashion is all about. I love going to these shows because I love seeing creativity. So when I get to meet these fashion designers, I'm kind of like, "Where did you get the idea to make this? What were you thinking?" Some of that stuff is so crazy and loud.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Think
  • Crazy
  • Idea

• You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Important
  • Yourself
  • Moment

• The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Natural

• All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Joy

• Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Music
  • Free
  • Creativity

• Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Dream
  • Support

• Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.

  

  Max Richter
  • Deep
  • Creativity

• We need innovation and creativity.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Creativity
  • Innovation

• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
  • Power
  • Dreams

• ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

  

  Tan Le
  • Science
  • Creativity

• Innovating today is about creativity; it is about the freedom to act... if you look at the big conglomerate... it's highly regulated. It's a lot of talk about... internal controls and this and that... so there's a huge mindshift change to get the best of people.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • People
  • Today
  • Freedom

• The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Childhood
  • Idea
  • Creativity

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