Creativity Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you. — Adam Oakley

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. — Aberjhani

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely. — Jaime Reed

Make time for productivity and creativity instead of useless socialmedia activity! — Lily Amis

Writer's block is just another name for fear. — Jacob Nordby

Any person whom seeks to live a historical existence must devote their efforts to learning about the world, care about people and nature, and seek to express their thoughts in the artistic methodology most appropriate to their particular talent. A person cannot fake self-awareness or imitate an artistic nature. A person must honestly earn a heightened level of conscious awareness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Stand up.
Stand out.
Stand firm.
Stand strong. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I and my silences keep talking to each other. — Avijeet Das

Humankind's struggle against a hostile environment causes people throughout the ages to deploy their full armory of logic, training, strategy, imagination, inventiveness, and creativity. We are born with the natural ability to strategize. The most influential tool in humankind's intellectual tool kit is the ability to regenerate a sense of unruffled alertness, to establish a poised stance that leads to intuitive discoveries generated by the conscious and unconscious mind constantly filtering a plethora of data, selecting critical facts, and producing elegant solutions to seemingly insoluble dilemmas. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I need to be startlingly clear. This thing of finding your authentic voice, expressing your blessed weirdness and revealing your soul isn't an elegant process. You don't do it to be cool. You don't do it to get laid or get rich. It's only real when it is ruthless, relentless and inevitable. But it is also a matter of personal and collective survival. Yes, it's that important. You are that critical. — Jacob Nordby

It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities. — Danielle Pierre

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator? — Stewart Stafford

There are many ways even to cook an egg. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.

from the book: stuff i think about — Sondra Faye

It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own. — Luther E. Vann

Life is filled with opportunities. Be courageous and fulfill your destiny. You were created for a purpose and once you realize your potential, you become unstoppable. Let no one get in the way of you pursuing your dreams. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The essence of creativity is non-compliance though its expression is never completely unrestrained. Even the work of the greatest painter is limited by the expanse of the canvas he paints on. — Amit Pandey

Intelligence helps you think inside of the box.
Creativity helps you think outside of the box. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The 4 "I" in Simple Ideas: Involve individuals; Inspire crowds; Instil creativity; Innovate humanity ! — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Creativity is divine. — A.D. Posey

Somewhere, within our brain, we have a potential for higher mathematics, complex physics, art, & amazing richness of thoughts, feelings & sensations Somewhere within our brain we have a potential to understand the Magic of Creative Thinking — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

Sexuality, like creativity, is a gift from God. — Lauryn Doll

Don't just do the obvious and predictable stuff, be remarkable! — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Creativity cannot be placed in a box. There is no right or wrong, just a human being daring to share their idea of beauty. Their unique expression will either delight and resonate with you or it won't. But every creation is beautiful to someone, if only its maker, and that is enough. — Gabriel Lea

Positivity elevates creativity. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking? — Onyi Anyado

Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. — Karl Lagerfeld

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

When I discovered music - when I discovered the craft of shaping a song - my being fell into place. — Charlotte Eriksson

Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me. — Avijeet Das

Creative people come often at a stark difference between the kind and the mean spirited. Be they an artist or not in life their personal ingenuity is often a marvel to behold. They create opportunities where none were just seconds prior in existence. Creative souls without flexibility are
an easy hallmark for a tyrant in behavior. The opposite is also true those creative types open to flexibility are usually more often than not easy going in demeanor. When such subcategories of personalities are highly intuitive they also
shift their behavior to match the presence of their peers. Very much like an empathic chameleon able to change its colors so as to fit in out of habit or necessity. — Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas

The president, the secretary of state, the businessman, the preacher, the vendor, the spies, the clients and managers - all walking around Wall Street like chickens with their heads cut off - rushing to escape bankruptcy - plotting to melt down the Statue of Liberty - to press more copper pennies - to breed more headless chickens - to put more feathers in their caps - medals, diplomas, stock certificates, honorary doctorates - eggs and eggs of headless chickens - multitaskers - system hackers - who never know where they're heading
northward, backward, eastward, forward, and never homeward - (where is home) - home is in the head - (but the head is cut off) - and the nest is full of banking forms and Easter eggs with coins inside. Beheaded chickens, how do you breed chickens with their heads cut off? By teaching them how to bankrupt creativity. — Giannina Braschi

What I teach is a process of becoming a soulmaker. Soulmaking, as John Keats noted, is the work of creating our unique bliss. In this process, we liberate our creativity and our joy, our power and our purpose. We become imaginatively rich and spiritually vibrant. The interesting thing about soulmaking is that everyone craves it- an enlarged imaginative perception of themselves and the world, a deeper emotional connection to their own heart and to the hearts of others, a wilder capacity for joy- and yet we have almost no societally sanctioned space for this endeavor. — Carolyn Elliott

Creators are greater than imitators. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing. — Anne Carson

Write the masterpiece that has not been written.
Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.
Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.
Create the masterpiece that has not been created. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense. — Pearl Zhu

Gratitude is a way of creativity. — Nadia Bandura

IT'S TIME TO LEARN YOUR A.B.C.s

Always
BE CONFIDENT
Confidence is a feeling, feel it.

Always
BE CREATIVE
Creativity is an ability, enable it.

Always
BE CURIOUS
Curiosity is a desire, desire it.

Always
BE COMPASSIONATE
Compassion is an awareness, be aware.

Always
BE CHARITABLE
Charity is generous, be generous.

Always
BE CONSIDERATE
Consideration is thoughtful, think.

Always
BE COURTEOUS
Courtesy is a mindset, be mindful.

Always
BE COACHABLE
Coachability is a willingness, be willing.

Always
BE COMMITTED
Commitment is purpose, live on purpose.

Always
BE CARING
Caring is giving, give. — Richie Norton

Don't squash creativity, inspire it! — Shellie Palmer

There is a juiciness to creativity, a succulence that comes up from within, a sensuality which both produces and is soothed by the act and product of creativity. Creativity is pleasing to us on a deep level. Be it the feel of clay in our hands, the colors that make us feel alive as we knit or sew, the meaning that we find in the words that we write, the energizing feel of movement as we dance and the music moves through our bodies. Taking part in creativity helps us to be more fully alive on every level, it asks that we engage with life in a visceral, and interactive way. — Lucy H. Pearce

Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014 — Jenna Cornell

Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Creativity comes from curious, intuitive, persistent action. — Debasish Mridha

You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth. — Ilchi Lee

Measure your life not by its longevity but by the differences you have made with your creativity and beauty. — Debasish Mridha

At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss! — Avijeet Das

Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood. — Girish Kohli

What does one do with experience? Do we react negatively, or do we (pro)create from the space of positivity? — T.F. Hodge

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

Note to myself - It is time for me to start taking my guitar lessons. One of my neighbor's singing and guitar strumming skills are so cool that I can't stop marveling at the music wafting around here. — Avijeet Das

You're not alone. You're never alone. Use creativity to change what world you're in at this moment. — E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

Solitude fosters creativity. Society enhances reactivity. — Debasish Mridha

Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering. — Sharon Salzberg

With poetry and writing, the question isn't "do you know the right words?".
The real question is, "can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls? — Jacob Nordby

It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made. — Elizabeth Goudge

The doorway to health, higher intelligence and inexhaustible creativity lies in your willingness to live from Source. Risk being who you are meant to be; you are more compassionate, colorful, imaginative, visionary, more sensitive than you think. — Lynne Gordon-Mundel

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
(Marti Melville) — Marti Melville

If he lacks verbal expression of it, you may find his love profoundly in his works, deeds and creativity; so recognize rather than criticize. — T.F. Hodge

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer. — Rossana Condoleo

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it. — Ryan Lilly

Creativity channels your energy into a powerful source which allows you to perform amazing tasks and achieve great things. — Miya Yamanouchi

The fear of criticism stagnates the power of creativity. — Debasish Mridha

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. — Anthony Jay

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying. — Austin Kleon

Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created! — Avijeet Das

Poetry lets me pour out my various emotions even the suppressed ones we didn't know exist inside us' til the moment you start jotting down what you're feeling. It's more than an escape into the unknown, a refuge for your creativity and sometimes wild imagination not all ordinary, ungifted people like us understand. -Elizabeth's Quotes — Elizabeth E. Castillo

To flourish in any field of activity you need to gain a deep understanding of it. — Rod Judkins

It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a great learned man to imitate God's ability to create. As Prometheus stole the fire of the Gods and brought it to the mankind, humanity needed to steal the secret of 'creation' from Gods and understand its essence. — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

Embrace your journey and those who come across your path. Be gracious in your endeavors. Focus on your craft. Those who support your dreams now and feel your sincere humility and gratitude will be there 20, 30, 40 years from now, padding your old bones and time worn, weary soul. — Ann Marie Frohoff

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible. — Fennel Hudson

Imagination releases curiosity and sensitivity triggers creativity — Bukoye Micheal

Developing the skill of creativity, like with any other skill, takes time. Do devote time to creativity. Honor its flow and its magic. Allow it to become your Life Force. Train Creativity daily. — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally meet. — L.M. Fields

But Hannah's friend didn't understand the volatile balancing act between art and sanity, that the act of creation was like walking a tightrope during an earthquake. She didn't understand Hannah's stupid need for validation, or that the size of the audience increased the stakes and multiplied the fear. She didn't understand that creativity was dangerous, that, yes, there were some people who could stand before a canvas, paint a sunset that would bring the world to its knees, and return to their loved ones as a complete person who didn't hurt, didn't cry, didn't spill blood to appease the host of fickle muses. But Hannah did. Hannah's best ideas - sometimes her only ideas - were buried beneath the skin. — Jake Vander Ark

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book. — E.A. Bucchianeri

There is this one thing that makes a big difference: creativity! There is this one thing that gives birth to great things: imaginations! The world we see is a product of creativity and imaginations, and they that know the power of creativity and how to give life to their imaginations live and leave distinctive footprints! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitude. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Ugh, writer's block. The best thing to do is to forget about everything you're trying to do. Get away from your writing station, kick your feet up and relax. Then allow your mind to just wander. Don't stop it. Just let yourself think of anything, no mater how silly the thoughts seem. Remember, not to judge these thoughts. This will open up your creative receptors. You'll begin to think outside the box. Then the good stuff will start racing through you. That's when you start writing! — La Tisha Honor

Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality. — Pearl Zhu

Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts. — Emilyann Girdner

A true great artist at heart never ceases to create, continuously amazes and keeps sharing his gift despite barriers, judgement, fears and dreaded myths. If you stopped being creative out of fear or loss of self-esteem or pride, you were never an artist first and foremost for you have ran away from your true calling. - Elizabeth's Quotes — Elizabeth E. Castillo

We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today? — Archibald Marwizi

Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect,thoughts,imagination,creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art. — Shilpa Sandesh

Today's thoughts and imaginations are tomorrow's reality. They will foster actions as the mother of all creativity. — Debasish Mridha

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all. — Deepak Chopra

Imagination is the source of all creativity. — Debasish Mridha

Purpose an integral force to success and creativity — Akubuiro Chidera

God is a great illustrator especially when I look at the humankind; different races, different genders, different heights, different weights and different shapes.His illustrations are simply breath taking, full of details and very inspiring. His creativity is beyond great and He's a mighty God. — Euginia Herlihy

It was creative, not financial success that thrilled Walt. — Leslie Le Mon

Creativity is not a "thing," it's a process that happens as a proactive mental activity to a problem. — Pearl Zhu

Follow your dreams, not the crowd. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. — Marti Melville

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Persecution inspires men who otherwise would have remained dormant. As pain whips the painter, his brush whips the canvas. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I am pushing you, even if it's off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they're not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative. — Nikki Sixx

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. — Karl Lagerfeld