Top 675 Creativity Quotes

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever’s in them rises to the surface in free play.
Erik Erikson
I think we shouldn’t buckle up our creativity. You’ve got to experiment!
Ranveer Brar
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She’s taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
Carole King
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
Vangelis
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it’s produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
Ken Robinson
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think th

I don’t think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
Twyla Tharp
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
Rollo May
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
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.
Catherine Tate
I think that everything is part of creativity – the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.
Melanie Laurent
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you’re a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.
Cornelia Parker
To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.
Zacky Vengeance
I’m interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I’m sort of a performance rat.
Dane Cook
I’m pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun.
Reggie Watts
Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process – reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul.
Edwin Catmull
I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that ‘spotlight’ the individual’s role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.
Chris Jordan
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it’s a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
Deepak Chopra
I’m very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it’s a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It’s never calculated.
Jeremy Scott
A film maker’s energy and creativity don’t have to end when he turns over his film.
Michael Cimino
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
Since I came from another part of the world, I expected many differences in the way things worked, but at the end of the day, there actually were more similarities between the American and Indian entertainment industry: the same chaos, creativity, passion, and genius all around.
Priyanka Chopra
In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn’t have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.
Issey Miyake
My father probably – he had flashes of creativity – he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
Frank Gehry
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
Florence King
As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.
Henry Paulson
The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.
Reuven Rivlin
I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It’s some of my favorite art… It’s more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
Beck
I love modeling, and I missed fashion and my friends and family in fashion and the creativity that I’m able to express through it. I didn’t feel I was getting enough of that through my acting.
Amber Valletta
If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.
Alessandro Michele
I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It’s more of a rock n’ roll thing.
Caitlin Moran
I can never turn my creativity off.
Casey Wilson
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
Sometimes I’m not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
Sam Hunt
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‘What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?’ And, ‘How does creativity apply across the board?’
Kanye West
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mista

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
Mark Udall
In my own life, I’ve written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.
Heather Graham
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
Jean Houston
I’ve dated a few musicians in my life, and it’s kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together.
Dianne Reeves
Creativity’s about ownership.
John Maeda
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Nadine Gordimer
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
Tony Buzan
President Obama’s view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
Mitt Romney
The rigors of creativity – the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude – do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn’t for everyone.
David Rakoff
I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.
Morgan Neville
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.
Muhammad Yunus
In my mind, creativity is consciousness.
RJ Cyler
I’m very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I’m really concentrated.
Christian Louboutin
Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, ‘Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I’m here.’ It’s another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I’m going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
Shania Twain
All leading brands started with and still possess the DNA of innovation and creativity, but it is often limited to one or two areas such as design or engineering. For a company to prosper, it must inject this innovative spirit into every aspect of the business.
Dinesh Paliwal
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he’s going to write poetry or songs.
Roger Waters
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world – the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.
George Pataki
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Arthur Koestler
Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline – it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.
Lela Loren
Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great – and so vital for innovation and creativity.
Justine Bateman
As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product – your job is to make a director’s vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.
Maya Hawke