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