Creativity Quotes
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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.
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Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. I've seen a lot of those articles and I thought they were unreasonable when I was in school, but they're getting a little bit out of hand now. We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity.
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I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.
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If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
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Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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No matter how much you try and make your surroundings suitable for creativity, if the enviornment inside of you isn't creatively healthy then you won't be able to make the art you want. Being in tune with yourself and your inner truth, being at peace in there, is the best way to nurture your creativity. Then you can even make a bad enviornment a good one.
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When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.
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Being able to engage my creativity in a way that makes a difference inspires me more than anything.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.
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The opposite of creativity is cynicism.
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I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.
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The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
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It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
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The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.
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I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we're born, we're - all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.
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Henry Corbin creates the world - most of all his examination of the imagination and what the imagination was for him. Some philosophers would think of the imagination as a synthetic ability, how you put different things together. Artists more think of the imagination as creativity. So I really like the way that he presents the imagination as a faculty that allows one to experience worlds that are not exactly physical but are real nonetheless.
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All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
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The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Life is at its best when love, money, and creativity are growing in harmony.
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Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.
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What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.
