Creativity Quotes

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to thi...

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own va...

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it...

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a wh...

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It ...

The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy g...

...the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog thro...

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

Creativity is as important as literacy

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and ou...

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for th...

Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doin...

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, whic...

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in ...

Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: y...

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. ...

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat ...

I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of wri...

A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague....

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, co...

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future...

Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Chris...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the exte...

This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than...

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

The knowledge of all things is possible

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he...

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and ...

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time ...

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negati...

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of s...

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any mo...

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you wer...

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence...

If we allow our "high creativity" to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in ...

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace not...

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working wit...

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who...

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativi...

The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or ...

In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is ope...

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin ev...

We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea ...

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. T...

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature it...

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe...

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mo...

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover wi...

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the co...

The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of cour...

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Dancing is very like poetry.

I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the b...

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and...

We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how ea...

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our cre...

The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary OliverI know, you never intended to be in this world....

Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that ...

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They...

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our c...

Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity...

where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poe...

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from the...

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pu...

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives...

All of the dissatisfactions he had felt in his practice of the art form he had stumbled across withi...

There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was ...