Creativity Quotes - Page 2

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.