Creativity Quotes

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

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

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

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

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.