Your Creativity Quotes

#1. You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish ...

Kat Von D.

#2. I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.

Kanye West

#3. Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly designed to live in collaboration with inspiration, and inspiration is still trying to find you - the same way it hunted down your ancestors.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

Ze Frank

#5. If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.

James Altucher

#6. I want to show the world that it is possible. It's possible to remember your self. To open your mind. To open your heart. To open your creativity. To live with less, but to live well.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#7. But to yell at your creativity, saying, "You must earn money for me!" is sort of like yelling at a cat; it has no idea what you're talking about, and all you're doing is scaring it away, because you're making really loud noises and your face looks weird when you do that.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. Love your imagination for it is the heart of your creativity.

Harold W. Becker

#9. The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.

Tony Robbins

#10. In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.

Stuart Wilde

#11. Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.

Dan Wells

#12. In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.

Travis Kalanick

#13. Renaissance artist Gregorio Comanini, has counseled the equivalent of Live an ordinary, regular life so you can be irregular and brilliant in your creativity.

Jeff VanderMeer

#14. Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

John Darnielle

#15. Money is nothing more than a reflection of your creativity, your capacity to focus, and your ability to add value and receive back.

Anthony Robbins

#16. Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

Grimes

#17. Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

Mae Jemison

#18. Measure your life not by its longevity but by the differences you have made with your creativity and beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. Self-reflection is an important stage to diagnose, develop and strengthen your creativity.

Pearl Zhu

#21. No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Julia Cameron

#22. If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

Margaret Heffernan

#23. Deadlines cause stress, and prolonged stress is bad for your creativity, productivity, and health.

Robert C. Newbold

#24. There's a friend at the end of your pen which you can use to help you solve personal or business problems, get to know all the different parts of yourself, explore your creativity, heal your relationships, develop your intuition

Kathleen Adams

#25. In the end, your creativity
perhaps even your outrageousness
will determine the final result.

Bobby Flay

#26. Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#27. Why don't you make your whole body into a string and play the music of the vibratory electromagnetic self, which is your creativity, and project to the heart of another person?

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#28. I think everything contributes to your creativity.

Gary Gulman

#29. Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you.

Deepak Chopra

#30. Own your creativity. You are creative with the same juice that flows in all of life. The question is not whether you are creative enough but whether you will free yourself to express it.

Ian Roberts

#31. Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Judith Jamison

#32. Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand.

Louise L. Hay

#33. Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

Barbara Sher

#34. Only work with projects you love. That will make your creativity blend with your vitality, and the project will create itself.

Lisa Langseth

#35. Clear focus is the mind's magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create.

Sonia Choquette

#36. You Are Already a Millionaire - Your Creativity Makes It So..

Ernie J Zelinski

#37. Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity.

Euginia Herlihy

#38. As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect or design beforehand. Thus the realm of your creativity grows wider.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

#39. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity." Just

Ryan Holiday

#40. The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

Pope Francis

#41. Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.

Twyla Tharp

#42. You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#43. I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.

Woody Harrelson

#44. I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

Sadie Jones

#45. The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#46. It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#47. We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.

Jennifer Echols

#48. You are creative. Your creativity may be in a deep sleep, but it is there. All you have to do is wake it up and put it to use.

Kevin Eikenberry

#49. Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Marina Abramovic

#50. Everyone has creative potential. Creativity involves using your imagination and inventiveness. Your unique expression of yourself is your creativity...Creativity can be magic when visiting people who are ill.

Patch Adams

#51. To be ignored or rejected by people you know doesn't change God's plan about your life and your dreams He has given you. His plan about your life is wayward than the man's approval of your creativity. Keep moving forward with your head held high.

Euginia Herlihy

#52. Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

Brian Tracy

#53. Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

Cheryl Richardson

#54. I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Daphne Guinness

#55. When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Paul Stanley

#56. Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you're supposed to be. Your authentic self knows where you're headed. Don't wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#57. In tough and desperate times when your creativity begs to be birthed, loose the confines of the ground; stand up in your faith and walk atop the waves ...

Stanice Anderson

#58. I think it's important for whatever you are doing, even if it's a collection, to seek outside advice. If your world becomes too insular, it limits your creativity.

Georgina Chapman

#59. Don't let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.

Morr Meroz

#60. Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

Arlaina Tibensky

#61. If you're going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

Randy Pausch

#62. 127 How do you express your creativity?

Rossi Fox

#63. A villain let your creativity out of its cage.

Jodi Picoult

#64. I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.

Christina Aguilera

#65. Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

Arthur Rimbaud

#66. If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.

Rajneesh

#67. Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing safe. If you hesitate you are restraining your creativity. Some will appreciate your creative work and others will not. Just be free in expressing the creative you!

Alison Blackmore

#68. You can't keep bitch-slapping your creativity, or it'll run away and find a new pimp.

George Meyer

#69. I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it?

Lauren Artress

#70. Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Pharrell Williams

#71. The greater your creativity, the greater your originality.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#72. I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.

Jill Scott

#73. Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

Tom Rath

#74. 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

#75. If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, anger and hate, will be taken over by your love, your sensitivity, your compassion, your creativity. This is the whole alchemy of changing base metals into gold.

Rajneesh

#76. The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

Bryan Adams

#77. Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Val McDermid

#78. Think about your work situation. Do you treat your creativity like a fossil fuel - a limited resource that must be conserved - or have you harnessed the unending power of the sun? Are you in an environment where creativity thrives? Is there room for new ideas every day? Can you make room?

Biz Stone

#79. If you want to express your creativity, then don't choose a path where someone else tells you what to do and how to do it. Choose a path where creativity is rewarded, not punished.

Steve Pavlina

#80. The funny thing is that when you have any form of presentation to your band, meaning you have the foresight to see outside of your creativity, you have a bigger vision.

Nikki Sixx

#81. But what if scrambling to pay the bills takes every minute of your day, every ounce of your creativity? What if you can't afford an au pair? What if you can't even afford an ordinary babysitter?

Claire Cook

#82. Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

Abbas Kiarostami

#83. The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.

Douglas Coupland

#84. On Lego's
Listen, I don't want to stifle your creativity, but that thing you built there, it looks a pile of shit.

Justin Halpern

#85. My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.

Ice Cube

#86. An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#87. Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

Jane Green

#88. Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.

Jewel

#89. You will learn to enjoy the process ... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.

Julia Cameron

#90. Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

Laurie Halse Anderson

#91. Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Mark Frauenfelder

#92. Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.

Cory Booker

#93. All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it comes out of meditation, creativity is sharing the joy, sharing the blissfulness that you have. Mind has no joy - it is really a wound, very painful.

Rajneesh

#94. You can't let fear and indecision sink your creativity
they do not easily release their hold.

Richie Norton

#95. Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being - that of ecstasy; and out of ecstasy, whatever is created has also some flavor of it.

Rajneesh

#96. Learn to express your creativity... Your monkey-mind will hate it; but your soul will dance in celebration.

Andrew Hyde

#97. If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

Julia Cameron

#98. I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

Rita Wilson

#99. Your creativity comes from the universal source of all creation, the source of all intelligence and wisdom.

Robin Sharma

#100. Trust your creativity.

Jeanette Winterson