The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

You need to find a way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

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

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.

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

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

You are creative. Your creativity may be in a deep sleep, but it is there. All you have to do is wake it up and put it to use.

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