Creativity Quotations | Page 4

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

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

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

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.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.