Creativity Quotes

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would-I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven.

It's not to anybody's best interest to think about how they will be perceived tomorrow. It hurts you in the long run

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed [to] B E A because ... B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed ... the E to an A. And it meant two things then. ... When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

Out of the bliss comes magic, wonderment and creativity.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

Creative minds have the ability to imagine or invent something new by combining, changing or reapplying existing ideas.

The important aspect of creativity is seeing the same thing as everybody else, but thinking of something different.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.