Top 675 Creativity Quotes

We are building a brain trust of leading app talent. These are very highly regarded developers, and SGN is blessed to have them join to help build a great company that brings innovation, creativity, and joy to our users.
Shervin Pishevar
I’m learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.
Denis Villeneuve
If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.
Jim Gilmore
Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what – one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it’s our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it’s our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.
Caroline Kennedy
I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don’t know and you hope – all these things are in play all the time. I think it’s what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.
Eric Fischl
We are bodies which think, and we’re at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.
Nick Harkaway
We built our business on creativity, and we’re going to have to go through an education process for the next five years to explain to people how our users and that creativity creates value.
Evan Spiegel
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
When something effective takes hold, it can change the world. Whether through a mobile device or a desktop computer, connectivity and creativity make it all possible.
Tae Yoo
For me, it’s always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.
Future
I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there’s not a safe environment for that.
Jeremy Jordan
Since merchandise creativity is hampered by the reluctance of manufacturers to do special things for an individual store, it might be well to increase purchases in foreign markets more able to accept innovative ideas.
Stanley Marcus
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It’s a skill.
Jonah Lehrer
You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles… there’s a lot of creativity and brain working. There’s a lot to model trains that people don’t realize.
Gary Coleman
I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.
Lady Gaga
The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American’s needs for a skilled work force.
Elaine Chao
Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.
Dalton McGuinty
I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it’s afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.
RuPaul
I guess I started running when I was about 18 and… I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.
Ellie Goulding
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
Deepak Chopra
Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
David Byrne
Comfort is the killer of creativity.
David Choe
My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.
Allison Janney
Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
Paul Rodgers
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Trying to force creativity is never good.
Sarah McLachlan
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Brene Brown
Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you’re doing. It’s rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.
Andy Grammer
Many of the best teachers I know are being laid off because their unions value seniority over intellect, passion, creativity, and drive.
Sal Khan
Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn’t just a platform for technological innovation: It’s showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.
Erin McKean
We retell our favorite stories. That’s what we’ve done since we were sitting around campfires. It’s a part of the human spirit. It doesn’t have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That’s how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that’s already been done.
Joel Kinnaman
All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.
Freddy Adu
Empowering the creativity of our developers is at the core of everything we do at Roblox.
David Baszucki
I hope I haven’t grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don’t want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I’m holding on to that.
Catherine Hardwicke
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp
I love the game. I want to see creativity. I want to see great goals. I want ‘Wow!’
Guy Lafleur
I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.
Stephen Curry
In many senses, creativity and ‘plagiarism’ are nearly indivisible.
David Shields
Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.
Jamie Cullum
I think if you’re everyone’s cup of tea, that probably means you’re a little bit boring, or you’re not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it’s dangerous and scary: where you’re not comfortable.
Kacey Musgraves
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It’s a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you’re in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
Bill Viola
As far as I’m concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.
Edward Hirsch
Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy – entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.
Donald Norman
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
Ray Kroc
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
Wentworth Miller
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
Biz Stone
People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn’t serve true creativity.
Michael Masser
We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into.
James St. James
Being dyslexic, creativity was my way of expressing myself.
Ashley Nell Tipton
We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.
John Rocha
I’m an attorney when I’m not writing comics, and have been for years. That’s a side of my life I don’t always associate with pure creativity, but it’s all worked out nicely.
Charles Soule
In Australia, there aren’t a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they’re very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.
Joel Edgerton
There’s a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don’t necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.
Flume
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don’t know how it works – there’s something about it that’s liberating.
Val McDermid
I’m not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
Labrinth
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet
My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she’s really one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.
Matt Bomer
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
Rachel Cusk
When I don’t have a good time, it’s usually because there’s a stiffness that stifles creativity.
Garry Shandling
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
Mitski
Confidence is vital to pushing creativity and creating a point of difference.
Asher Keddie