Top 94 Without Creativity Quotes
#1. Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
Benjamin Spock
#2. There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
Edward De Bono
#3. Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.
Rajneesh
#4. Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.
Amy Dacyczyn
#5. Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.
Aneta Cruz
#6. Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
Amy Dacyczyn
#7. If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning ... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.
Marion Woodman
#8. To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
Lorne Michaels
#9. Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.
Angie-Marie Delsante
#10. Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art ... I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.
Quentin Crisp
#11. Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small- minded.
Denis Diderot
#12. Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.
Tom Althouse
#13. Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.
Jaime Winstone
#14. You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.
Twyla Tharp
#15. 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
#16. There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.
Emil Nolde
#17. Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
William Pollard
#18. An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#19. We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.
Hubert Burda
#20. Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.
John Darnielle
#21. A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.
Kurt Hanks
#22. If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.
Jef Raskin
#23. True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.
Douglas Haddow
#24. We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#25. Creativity would not exist as successfully or efficiently without its social world. The social is not the by-product - it is the decisive mechanism by which cultural products and cultural producers are generated, evaluated and sent to the market.
Elizabeth Currid
#26. I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh
#27. Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.
Brene Brown
#28. There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Brene Brown
#30. Purpose stirs creativity, without purpose you life will be in abnormal use(abuse).
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#31. Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.
Zephyr Teachout
#32. My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.
John Updike
#33. Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.
Nolan Bushnell
#34. 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
#36. 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
#37. A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
Wilhelm Raabe
#38. A real woman can compliment and celebrate another woman's beauty, intelligence, passion, sex appeal, and creativity without compromise because a real woman understands that when she lifts her sisters up, it takes nothing away from her and she elevates herself in the process.
Elissa Gabrielle
#39. Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist.
Richard Diaz
#41. Creativity cannot flourish and reach its deepest potential without the participation of its demons as well as its angels.
Shaun McNiff
#42. When we ask it about our current path, we must look at the values we have chosen to live by. Where do we put our time, our strength, our creativity, our love? We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration, or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
Jack Kornfield
#43. Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.
Faith Ringgold
#44. The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language ...
Martha N. Beck
#45. I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.
Clive Barker
#46. Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#47. There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
Akio Morita
#48. A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?
Megan Hart
#50. Without constructive skepticism, without human progress.
Pearl Zhu
#51. Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Abraham Maslow
#53. You cannot "disrupt" without incremental innovation being part of the process.
Pearl Zhu
#54. It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well ... problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#55. A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.
Michael R. LeGault
#56. It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.
Jim Morrison
#57. Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
Florence King
#58. High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese
Paul Arden
#59. It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.
H. L. Balcomb
#60. Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality ... is conscious and alert ... The lower personality is a ... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature ...
E. M. Forster
#61. My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.
Moshe Feldenkrais
#62. True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.
Teresa Amabile
#63. Creative expansion cannot happen without vision.
Pearl Zhu
#64. After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.
Osamu Dazai
#65. Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.
Lilli Palmer
#66. No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We've got too many dexterous drudges as it is.
Jan Neruda
#67. Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.
Robert Grudin
#68. There is no creativity without vulnerability.
Brene Brown
#69. We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.
Roger Wilkins
#70. I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.
Patty Duke
#71. From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.
Beth Johnson
#72. I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. ( ... ) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in which you are.
Slavoj Zizek
#73. Yes, there can be no innovation, learning, or creativity without failure. But failing is painful. It fuels the "shouldas and couldas," which means judgment and shame are often lying in wait
Brene Brown
#75. Even for women without children, trading hours that produce income for hours that produce "only" art seems like a foolish decision. What a loss for the world, though, to have women's voices silenced because art is our last priority.
Holly Robinson
#76. You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.
Joni Mitchell
#78. I have never seen genius without a touch of madness ... and vice versa.
Lance Conrad
#79. How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from his
creation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.
Indu Muralidharan
#80. If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.
Austin Kleon
#81. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
Twyla Tharp
#82. Done is better than none. You could have all the ideas in the world, but without execution, you will go nowhere.
Sue B. Zimmerman
#83. I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.
Michael Atiyah
#84. Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition.
Md. Ziaul Haque
#85. Without death there would be very little progress.
Steve Jobs
#86. The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.
Andy Stanley
#87. An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
Irving Stone
#88. Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters.
Shriram Iyer
#89. The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don't always get what you thought you were asking for.
Vernor Vinge
#90. We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.
John Woodward
#91. You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.
Patty Duke
#92. Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason - all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God "has not left himself without testimony" [Acts 14:17 NIV].
Billy Graham
#93. Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#94. My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can't push himself. He can't get better. He can't transform negatives into positives. He can't open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.
Georges St-Pierre
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