Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Becker

The road to creativity passes...

Ernest Becker

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Gary Busey

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

Christina Aguilera

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Christina Aguilera

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Christian Dior

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Christian Louboutin

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

Gertrude Stein

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

Gretchen Rubin

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

Georges St-Pierre

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.

Georges St-Pierre

My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He can’t transform negatives into positives. He can’t open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.

Herman Melville

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.

Herman Melville

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

Herman Melville

As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.

Henry David Thoreau

We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.

Henry David Thoreau

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Jill Scott

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.

Jerry Goldsmith

I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.

Grover Cleveland

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

Grimes

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

Ian Somerhalder

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

Hugh Prather

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

Hugh Prather

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

Hannah Arendt

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

Guy Fieri

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

Harold Rosenberg

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

James Daly

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

Jaime Lerner

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

Jacques Derrida

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Jackie DeShannon

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

Jack White

Sometimes you just get in there and force yourself to work, and maybe something good will come out, ya know? Deadlines and things make you creative. Opportunity and telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want-that just kills creativity.

Jack White

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.