Creativity Quotes - Page 6

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within

Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment.

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

Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.

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

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

To define is to limit.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.