Top 675 Creativity Quotes

I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.
Charlotte Ronson
Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.
Susan L. Taylor
I feel at various times in my life that I’ve been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
Jodie Foster
God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.
Erwin McManus
It’s not a burden, you know? You’re going to work in fashion, surrounded by creativity and beautiful people, beautiful objects… or work in banking. OK, I choose fashion.
Antoine Arnault
Prediction by analogy -creativity – is so pervasive we normally don’t notice it.
Jeff Hawkins
Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they’re always wrong. Bet on it.
Kenneth Fisher
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.
Joel Salatin
Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.
Marco Bizzarri
When you’re making an independent film what you don’t have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.
Matthew Lillard
I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.
Bernard Sumner
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that g

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
Herbie Hancock
I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don’t want to be turned into a pop princess; that’s not who I am.
Brynn Cartelli
But out of limitations comes creativity.
Debbie Allen
Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn’t being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.
Noreena Hertz
As much as I love make-up and the creativity behind this, the Internet can be a horrible place, and sometimes, with so much negativity and hate, it’s hard.
James Charles
Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies.
Marcel Wanders
I’m 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I’d also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I don’t want to judge it or anything – but it’s not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins
There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they’re really very different. I feel like they’re just two different ways to channel my creativity.
Mandy Moore
We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.
Johannes Rau
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Bryant H. McGill
You can’t buy something which does not exist. In a way, let’s make things exist and then judge later. Don’t cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.
Ross Lovegrove
We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
Shirley Williams
Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That’s one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.
Timothy Noah
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
Gwyneth Paltrow
The Internet is a decentralized network with unlimited sources of creativity.
Peter Sunde
And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it’s really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day – being there nonstop with all engines blazing.
Kris Jenner
Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.
Erwin McManus
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can’t be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is a sign of my mother’s determination, confidence, and creativity that more than 50 years after launching the renowned Ebony Fashion Fair show, her timeless sense of style endures as a guidepost for today’s fashion-loving women.
Linda Johnson Rice
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
Vladimir Kramnik
The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.
Alessandro Michele
When you care about people’s happiness and productivity, you give them what brings out the best in them and their creativity. And if you give them a choice, they’ll say, ‘I want an iPhone,’ or ‘I want a Mac.’ We think we can win a lot of corporate decisions at that level.
Tim Cook
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.
Shah Rukh Khan
Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six – but not me.
Anthony Browne
When you see the best of the best – when you see a Matisse or a Picasso – what interests you is the creativity and harmony.
Hubert de Givenchy
I hate this quality, but I can go to dark levels when we lose. It’s not a panic attack, but there’s anxiety. I’m inconsolable. I’m a train wreck. I’m being myself. Then I get this crazy, intense focus, where I get desperate not to be embarrassed again. That dark spot is what I tap into. Creativity comes from there.
Erik Spoelstra
I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.
E-40
Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.
Ted Dwane
I don’t understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It’s far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
Laetitia Casta
I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that it enables the readers’ creativity and interaction with the book.
Mohsin Hamid
Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, a

Creativity is a mansion. If you’re empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that’s full.
F. Gary Gray
The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.
Tom Wolfe
That’s the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I’m a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It’s your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.
Daniela Ruah
Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
Paul Rodgers
Everybody is so busy talking about ‘Twittering’ and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don’t talk about creativity.
George Lois
A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.
Giles Duley
I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.
Ziggy Marley
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while ‘Foster the People’ plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
Maggie Stiefvater
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
Ferran Adria
The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It’s a huge opportunity.
Jane Pauley
I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn’t just about money.
Andreja Pejic
I use a lot of different words for God – infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And ‘God’ is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It’s the great mystery.
Alex Grey
I don’t believe there’s a cap on creativity and passion.
Deadmau5
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
Penn Jillette
You can’t take a character anywhere they don’t expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.
Richard Price
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
Creativity should be balanced with commercial interests.
Pankaj Kapur
You can never forget the time you’re living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing.
Donatella Versace
In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.
Shah Rukh Khan