Top Creativity Quotes

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.

It takes a special energy, over and above one's creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled. It is a gamble as all creative projects...

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it...

The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedi...

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You thin...

We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

Every single human being is creative. Dreams are a proof.

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.

Some things are meant to live and die with an artist

Creativity is about connecting things. The key to genius is knowing how to make those connections.

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

The human mind is an endless vast of miraculous wonders.

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in -at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolat...

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.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music

When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- because of the necessity of finding a word which rhymes. This forces novel associations, and almost g...

We think we are far more creative and wiser than others who are surviving and struggling. We never put us in their shoe. We always expect them to do the same.

Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the...