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.

Carl Jung

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

John Updike

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

Jean Anouilh

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Julia Cameron

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

Julia Cameron

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

Albert Einstein

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Dr. Rollo May

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress.

Wilfred A. Peterson

Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently.

Eric A. Burns

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier bresson

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Nadine Gordimer

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Henri Matisse

The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.

Matthew Tobriner

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Ben Okri

Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.

Frank Barron

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

John W. Gardner

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening.

Daisaku Ikeda

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Jef I. Richards

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robin Green

Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

Frank Thomas

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

Louise Nevelson

For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

William N. Lipscomb, Jr.

Handled creatively, getting fired allows an executive to actually experience a sense of relief that he never wanted the job he has lost.

Frank P. Louchheim

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Amy Dacyczyn

Everyday in every way I create my own reality.So what is that I choose to create today?

Gabriella Goddard

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.

Charles Mingus

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Norman Podhoretz

Every time we say, 'Let there be!' in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

Talent works, genius creates.

Robert A. Schumann

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Gail Sheehy

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

Michele Shea

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Edward Koch

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

Edward de Bono

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

Edward de Bono

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Edwin H. Land

Creativity not committed to public purpose is merely therapy or ego satisfaction.

Ernest A. Jones

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

Scott Adams

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

Rita Mae Brown

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Michael J. Gelb

We encourage the children's expression through playful creativity.

Joelle Dumas

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Nadine Gordimer

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

We want to get it done as quickly and inexpensively with as much creativity and flexibility as we can have.

Andrew Johnson

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

Julian Lennon

This to me is a lot more challenging, ... I enjoy the creativity [of art]. It allows me to express myself, which I can't do in golf. I try, but I don't do very well.

Jim Hubbard

So many forms of creativity together in one spot. It's beautiful.

David J. Dean

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.

Joel Hildebrand

It's a new age, ... 'Creativity' is the word in balancing your personal and work life.

Robert Epstein

You could just see that she has something. She would almost be able to tell a story through a drawing. . . . You can actually see that creativity coming out.

Gregory Baron

Creativity and independent vision.

Steve Buscemi

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

Rita Mae Brown

Written reports stifle creativity.

H Ross Perot

The ultimate aim of these experimental laws is to allow for more creativity.

Rod Macqueen

This is a contest that will showcase creativity, inspiration and talent, as well as advertise our county and fair.

Katherine Meade

Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

Bruce Lee

The new creativity, the new story, the new feeling.

Domenico Dolce

Gwen is clear and focused in her creativity.

Rose Rosetree

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.

David Duchovny

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Bryant H. Mcgill

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

Bernice Fitz gibbon

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

James Russell Lowell

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Arthur Koestler

Prediction by analogy -creativity- is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Jeff Hawkins

There was a lot of creativity going on.

Judith Paice

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Billy Higgins

It'll always be in the spirit of fun and creativity.

David Gerke

It's always interesting. He's willing to let you use your creativity to get things done.

Jane Sawyer

Creativity was definitely the norm in that house.

Sean Mullin

We never sew for savings. We sew because it is an outlet for our creativity.

Dorothy Lewis

The creativity? Oh, yes. OH, YES!

Meg Ryan

Research shows that if children see something published it encourages more creativity.

Rhonda Dunham

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

John Travolta

It's the power of the brand, combined with their judgment and creativity, that makes Budweiser successful.

David Carruthers

I was impressed by his enthusiasm and creativity and the record he had.

John Petersen

The Life and Creativity of an American Artist, John Pike.

Jim Rose

What is going to build up the party are new ideas, creativity and imagination.

Jerry Meek

I did not predict the full range of creativity.

Irvin Lippman

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

Akio Morita

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

Ray Kroc

The list of sins committed by advertising is limited only by the creativity of its critics.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Shirley Williams

Knowing (Wolter) as well as I do, his creativity amazes me.

Larry Meyer

But that's not so with John. He was very much at the height of his popularity and his creativity. It's a tragedy.

Buddy Holly

I don't ever like to squash one's creativity.

Jim Tressel

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Pablo Picasso

It's an outlet for me to express my creativity.

Carol Wilson

Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.

Lawrence Lessig

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

Ed Norton

I just like everything about this industry. There's a lot of creativity in what we do.

Albert Miller

They had a clear message and used creativity to bring that out.

June Wozny

We will lead the world for the foreseeable future in creativity.

Robert Shillman

We'd like to see some creativity here because this is a national historic site.

Bob Ott

An aerial IED would be another indication of the enemy's innovation and creativity.

Genjohn Keane

A little human creativity matched up with tremendous human need.

Tom Fox

It?s an open-ended project so their creativity flows.

Denise Inman

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

Brian W. Aldiss

That may play a role in creativity and imagination.

Edward Vogel