
Top 100 Creativity Is Quotes
#1. Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
Albert Einstein
#2. Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
Ken Robinson
#3. Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#4. Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.
Criss Jami
#6. My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.
Isaac Asimov
#7. Creativity is a celebration of life ... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!
Joseph C Zinker
#8. Creativity is connected to passion - that light inside that drives you.
Amy Poehler
#9. Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
John Lennon
#10. For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
Julia Cameron
#11. Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#12. Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
Rollo May
#13. Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.
Mark Rubinstein
#15. Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
Vik Muniz
#16. As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.
Leon Krier
#17. We must remain ready to ask, open-minded enough to be led, and willing to believe despite our bouts of disbelief. Creativity is an act of faith, and we must be faithful to that faith, willing to share it to help others, and to be helped in return.
Julia Cameron
#18. Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
Chenjerai Hove
#19. God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.
Rajneesh
#20. Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.
Chuck Palahniuk
#22. Creativity is an integral part of our personality.
Jerzy Vetulani
#24. Find stillness
and you will hear the sound of the universe.
Step out of time and into the realm where creativity is possible.
Melissa Rae
#27. And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
#28. Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.
Robert Toth
#29. Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. The relentless don't settle for quiet when their creativity is blossoming. They may encounter crevices and falter. Yet, their soul will corrode any indifference.
Tina McKeon
#33. I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it."
Richard Bach
#34. Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.
Pearl Zhu
#35. Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.
Rajneesh
#37. Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.
Carol Birch
#38. People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.
Grant Achatz
#39. Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.
Rainn Wilson
#40. Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Edward De Bono
#41. Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.
Lee Silber
#42. Creativity is nothing but an intelligent imitation.
Sandeep Kakkar
#45. It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask: "How did you decided to be a spice?"
Eeva Kilpi
#46. The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.
Philippa Perry
#47. Talking about creativity is useless if you don't do anything magical with yours.
Ernie J Zelinski
#49. Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.
Swami Nithyananda
#50. Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, creativity is born.
Starhawk
#51. The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
Rita Mae Brown
#52. It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.
William Bernbach
#54. Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.
Tim Hansen
#55. Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key.
Lara Biyuts
#56. We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
Julia Cameron
#57. I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in terms of, 'Do you still have it?' Even if I was doing something new, I think I would be engaged in the same process.
Antony Hegarty
#58. Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#59. Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.
Emmet Gowin
#60. 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.
Charles Mingus
#61. Delivering unique creativity is hardest of all, because not only do you have to have insight, but you also need to be passionate enough to risk the rejection that delivering a solution can bring. You must ship.
Seth Godin
#62. Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things ... Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.
Rajneesh
#63. My love of creativity is one of my constants, a pole star amid the many constellations of possibilities and personalities that make up all the people I could be.
Claudia Gray
#64. If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.
Russell Smith
#66. If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.
Stjepan Hauser
#67. Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
Albert Einstein
#68. Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
Rollo May
#69. Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Tommy Shaw
#70. God is not repetitive; His creativity is infinite.
Rajneesh
#71. Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition.
John O'Donohue
#72. Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.
Elizabeth O'Connor
#73. Creativity is an endless source that comes from above, from the most high source of creation[God].
Euginia Herlihy
#74. By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death.
Rollo May
#75. In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.
Hayao Miyazaki
#76. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
#77. Creativity is the very source and the wonder of your experience.
Kenneth G. Mills
#79. Many believe the process of creativity is one of assembling thoughts and concepts, but highly creative people will tell you that the idea, the song, the image, was in them, and their task was to get it out, a process of discovery, not design. This
Gavin De Becker
#80. Creativity is not a "thing," it's a process that happens as a proactive mental activity to a problem.
Pearl Zhu
#81. Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.
Julia Cameron
#82. It's a silly argument, and unnecessary. Creativity doesn't happen "in here" or "out there" but in the spaces in between. Creativity is a relationship, one that unfolds at the intersection of person and place.
Eric Weiner
#83. Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.
Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.
But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.
Vera Nazarian
#84. Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
Abraham Maslow
#85. Creativity is normal for any believer who is not influenced by anxiety.
Bill Johnson
#86. Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood.
Girish Kohli
#87. Creativity is not a substitute for competence.
Mason Cooley
#88. When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#89. I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.
Brandi Carlile
#90. Creativity is basically subversive ...
Dan Wieden
#91. Creativity is a talent we inherit from God.
Kim Chestney
#93. Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings.
Rainn Wilson
#94. Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.
Rollo May
#95. Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#96. Creativity is easy.
Originality is difficult.
Relevance is a bitch.
Mark Rude
#97. Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp
#99. Creativity is a passion for some who are inquisitive and want to explore new possibilities.
Pearl Zhu
#100. Creativity is not to be rudely shoved into being
James Victore
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