Top 675 Creativity Quotes

Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me.
Neil Sedaka
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
Gilda Radner
You can’t just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
Ken Robinson
Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.
Jan de Bont
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer
And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.
William Shatner
America is composed of all kinds of people – part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to the fact that we are not utilising the abilities and the talents of other brown and black peoples and females that have something to bring to the creativity and the rejuvenation and the revitalisation of this country.
Shirley Chisholm
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it’s empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
Adam Braun
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
Julia Cameron
That’s exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to make it my own. That’s how culture, creativity, moves, isn’t it?
Jimmy Page
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It’s logic-based creativity.
John Romero
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it’s not random.
Ken Robinson
People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.
Helmut Newton
I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty

I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! I’ll be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!
Angela Bettis
The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I’m just telling a story.
Shonda Rhimes
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don’t want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that’s coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.
Gale Harold
If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we’re missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table.
Kimberly Bryant
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
David Walliams
I related to ‘A Clockwork Orange’ in a personal way. I was a bit of a thug growing up. It’s taken some reform for me. Thank God for artistry and creativity as an outlet.
CeeLo Green
I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.
Nick Hornby
That’s what real punk is about – doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.
Ad-Rock
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
Vidal Sassoon
Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
William Shatner
Cultivating innovative thinking starts at the top. Leaders can foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creativity and experimenting with new ideas.
Lynne Doughtie
Written reports stifle creativity.
Ross Perot
Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.
Richard Hayne
In my experience, poor people are the world’s greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.
Muhammad Yunus
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
Jackie Gleason
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
Grimes
Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don’t want to work at it, and it doesn’t come out of the sky.
Iris Apfel
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.
Lawrence Lessig
I’ve certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.
Bob Iger
Creativity is not about the fame.
Alessandro Michele
If you track your organization’s creativity by the number of brainstorms on your calendar, you’re missing out. It’s more important to capture those unplanned sparks of inspiration that so often come when we’re cooking dinner, taking a shower, or commuting to work.
Charles Best
On a job, there’s so much commitment you have to give, in regards to time, research… I like the tunnel vision of it that prevents anything else from getting in. The creativity and collaboration required there is very rewarding.
Liam Cunningham
We must permeate the stores with creativity and offer service when and to the degree the customer wants it. Of course, it means offering all the omni bells and whistles they want, like in-store pickup, same-day delivery, and mobile point of sale, and all of this must be done every hour of every day the store is open.
Richard Hayne
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
David Duchovny
I’m very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don’t really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.
David Karp
The one thing I had pure in my life was creativity.
Fantastic Negrito
I apply the term ‘creativity’ broadly… it’s problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that’s where creativity comes in.
Edwin Catmull
The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
Pablo Picasso
I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I’ve worked out why this is – unsociable hours, plus general creativity.
Jamie Cullum
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
Brian Aldiss
Choreography and creativity – it’s my matrix; let’s see where we can move.
Wayne McGregor
Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into th

Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it kill the artist inside of me.
Mark Foster
I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there’s a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.
Dawn Richard
New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.
Ratan Tata
One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.
Henry Kravis
The creative brand of Cirque du Soleil is creativity.
Guy Laliberte
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Umberto Eco
I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.
Edward Enninful
You cannot teach creativity – how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
Mario Vargas Llosa
I don’t separate architecture, design, or culture. What’s more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
Neri Oxman
Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity – all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.
Lauren Conrad
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
For us, creativity means thinking about the lives of our audience and how to connect with them.
Anna Wintour
I’ve found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.
Julian Lennon
Creativity is much better when it’s free. Someone can take it and sell it if that’s what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living – that would be the best scenario.
Matthew Sweet
I’ve always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you’re… unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.
Aubrey McClendon