creativity quotes

Stay hungry, stay foolish. You've got to find what you love!

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

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It's important to create what you desire to, not what people expect you to.

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No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.

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A lot of people have taste, but they don’t have the daring to be creative.

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look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...

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I will master something, then the creativity will come.

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Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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I do not seek, I find.

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We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

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

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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

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

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

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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.

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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

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

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

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Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

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Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

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I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

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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.

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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

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You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

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To create something you must be something.

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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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

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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

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

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We will not know unless we begin.

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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

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If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

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Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

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Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

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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.

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

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Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.

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

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If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

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In all matters of creativity, rules are meant to be broken when necessary.

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Genius is initiative on fire.

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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

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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.

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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

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When I think about my new CD, the word "joy" comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

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The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

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It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

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Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.

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life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

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I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

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The legs are the wheels of creativity.

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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

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A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

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How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

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

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Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

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That which builds is better than that which is built.

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

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

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Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

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.

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.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

Creativity is what transforms.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

My imagination was no competition for nature.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

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.