Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Ernst

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Matthew Sweet

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

Maya Beiser

I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

Maya Lin

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

Maya Lin

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Maya Angelou

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Maya Angelou

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

Maya Angelou

You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

Maya Angelou

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

Pat Metheny

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level,

Pablo Neruda

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when...

Pablo Casals

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

Pablo Casals

Music will save the world.

Laurie Metcalf

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

Lauryn Hill

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

John Travolta

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

John Ralston Saul

In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.

John Ralston Saul

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

Nicole Kidman

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

Nicholas Lea

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

Petra Kelly

I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace movements with a vitality and creativity never seen before.

Pharrell Williams

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

Pharrell Williams

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Peter Drucker

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

Peter Bart

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Peter Bart

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

Penn Jillette

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

Marissa Mayer

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

Marissa Mayer

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

Marie Antoinette

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)