Wonderful Quotes About Creativity
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. “.
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ".
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun.
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
Creativity consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know... Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
Creativity ... consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.
Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.
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.
Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
Broken symmetry is imperfection, but rich in creativity. The universe is created out of broken symmetry.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.
In the end, creativity isn't just the things we choose to put in, it's the things we choose to leave out.
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things -- like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.
Creativity can solve almost any problem.
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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.
Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.
To be creative means to be in love with life.
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To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter forcing spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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.
Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.
Imagination grows by exercise.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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.
Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

We'll be 'outsourcing' our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our coiffeurs. Welcome to the Borg. You might not be entirely comfortable with such cybernetic enhancements, but all the smart money says it's going to happen.
The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.
I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.
For all creative people, that's sort of everyone's journey. You feel something inside, and it takes a while to figure out what that looks like and what your voice is.
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.
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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.
You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.
Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum -- the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.
