Creativity Quotes
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Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
Virginia Woolf
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Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation.
Braden Kelley
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To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.
William James
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I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"
M.I.A.
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The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.
Jason Mraz
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I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.
Steve Jobs
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Tunnel vision can kill creativity.
Ami Vitale
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Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.
Ned Herrmann
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
Erica Jong
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The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.
Wim Wenders
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Being able to engage my creativity in a way that makes a difference inspires me more than anything.
Romany Malco
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Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
William Shatner
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I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational opportunities. The same applies for Dublin, which manages to achieve a blend of complexity, tolerance and artistry and makes a point of not devoting every part of the city to the tourism industry. Sometimes creativity also means forgoing short-term profits and simply saying no.
Charles Landry
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.
Andrew Yan
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Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.
Nolan Bushnell
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These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.
Geoffrey Miller
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I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.
Jessica Tandy
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Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.
Eugene S. Ferguson
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Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
William Shakespeare
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It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
George Lois
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Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.
Dalai Lama
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Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps.
Itay Talgam