Top 78 Creativity Freedom Quotes
#1. One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss.
Deepak Chopra
#2. Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of that pluralism has come virtually all of our creativity. Freedom is real only to the extent that there are diverse alternatives.
John W. Gardner
#3. I'm doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I'm concerned, I'll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I'll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I'm being selfish. It's perfect; all the freedom of creation, with none of the fuss.
Jessie Burton
#4. I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.
Rachael Price
#5. Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#6. Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.
Deepak Chopra
#9. Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. 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.
James Altucher
#10. Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
#11. If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake," he said. "Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister." Freedom was a foundation for creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#12. In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.
Deepak Chopra
#13. Contention murders creativity and stupidity is in enmity with freethinking.
Joel T. McGrath
#14. You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.
Pearl Zhu
#15. We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.
Robert Grudin
#16. If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".
Susan Cain
#17. Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in.
Melinda Gebbie
#18. Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
John W. Gardner
#19. Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.
Rollo May
#20. Bird of the sky
still bound to the earth,
soaring to unimaginable heights
yet returning to perch in the willow.
Death is near, always near
and so...is life
even in the ashes.
Rise Up Phoenix.
Live. Fly. Create!
Michele Jennae
#21. 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
#22. God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this makes the world a drama fraught with real peril.
Stratford Caldecott
#23. Find freedom in knowing that your human creativity is an echo intended to inspire worship of your Creator.
And then, create freely to your heart's delight.
Jen Wilkin
#24. Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.
Gloria Steinem
#25. Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotions within their heart
Andrew James Pritchard
#26. In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.
Julia Cameron
#27. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Albert Einstein
#28. [The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#29. True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#30. Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.
Dalai Lama
#31. Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.
Ferran Adria
#32. When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, Is this necessary at this point in the book?
Pat Conroy
#34. Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist.
Richard Diaz
#36. Be very attentive towards the child's evolving World of Senses that needs Stability, Routine, & Structure, World of Emotions that needs Love, Freedom & Creativity and World of Thoughts that needs Discrimination as an Ability to choose Right Thinking, Emotions, Behaviour.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#37. Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself.
Darrell Calkins
#39. Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.
Rajneesh
#40. Don't go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to improve. And, the chances of reaching your goals will increase enormously.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#41. Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.
Osho
#43. Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.
Carla H. Krueger
#44. As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.
Edward Hirsch
#45. All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
Rachel Bloom
#46. If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.
Adam Anderson
#47. Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.
Florence Welch
#48. Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.
Dalai Lama
#49. Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.
Bruce Lee
#50. 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.
Austin Kleon
#51. The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.
Larry R. Thompson
#52. Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
April Parker Jones
#53. Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#54. Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
Benjamin Spock
#55. It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
Florence Welch
#56. We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.
Serina Hartwell
#57. I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
Philippe Petit
#58. Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product of human creativity in an environment of freedom. The freedom to own, to make contracts, to save, to invest, to associate, and to trade: these are the key to prosperity.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#59. I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.
Lawrence Lessig
#60. Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.
Dalai Lama
#61. Made from divinity must mean mindstate to create is intrinsic - no fiction. Stop playin' with your power, your inner 'G', and build on purpose - accordingly. Being free is for free, so force the issue.
T.F. Hodge
#62. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.
David Allen
#64. A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.
Matt McGorry
#65. When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.
Criss Jami
#66. He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.
Christopher Paolini
#68. What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. The dark net is a world of power and freedom: of expression, of creativity, of information, of ideas. Power and freedom endow our creative and our destructive faculties. The dark net magnifies both, making it easier to explore every desire, to act on every dark impulse, to indulge every neurosis.
Jamie Bartlett
#70. We fight for a vision of the world that is both traditional and Faustian, that allies enrootment and disinstallation, the citizen's freedom and imperial service to the community-as-a-people, passionate creativity and critical reason, an unshakeable loyalty and an adventurous curiosity (WWF 267)
Guillaume Faye
#71. Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
Arthur Koestler
#72. Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.
Deepak Chopra
#73. Choose to not worry at all, freeing your creative mind and spirit to solve your problems.
Bryant McGill
#74. As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys
and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.
Bruno Bettelheim
#75. The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.
Jay Woodman
#76. Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.
David Byrne
#77. As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
Karel Appel
#78. Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.
Sonia Johnson
