Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

Jessica Tandy

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Glen Hansard

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Frank Herbert

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

Frank Herbert

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Jim Butcher

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

Hyman Rickover

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Hyman Rickover

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

Isaac Asimov

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

Elon Musk

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Ellen Forney

I find that stability is good for my creativity.

Giorgio Armani

For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

J. K. Rowling

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

J. Tillman

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

Grant Achatz

People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

Sonny Rollins

I can name a lot of people whose productive, whose creativity dies when they got L.A. Maybe it's too laid back. It's too comfortable.

Hunter S. Thompson

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Our finale links the intensity of young composers' creativity with the exuberance and sparkle of young performers.

Michael Redd

Our whole identity is to push the basketball, and that's what he does best. Once he gets in the open court, his creativity takes over, and we're better off by doing that.