Creativity Quotes - Page 8

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow. The sooner you identify that bliss, which surely resides in the soul of most human beings, the greater your chance of a truly successful life. In the act of creativity, being careful guarantees sameness and mediocrity, which means your work will be invisible. Better to be reckless than careful. Better to be bold than safe. Better to have your work seen and remembered, or you've struck out. There is no middle ground.

Creativity is just connecting things. 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. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Time is clay. Go make something.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.

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

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Creativity is the firing of my soul.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.