Creativity Quotes

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

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

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

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!

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

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

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

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

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.