Creativity Quotes - Page 16

• I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, 1997.

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• The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.

  Adam Leipzig

  Law, Creating, People

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• The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Giving, Pieces, Attention

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• Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

  Daniel Levitin

  Evolution, Possibility, Markers

  Daniel J. Levitin (2006). “This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession”, p.258, Penguin

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• The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Creative, Demand, Sociology

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.409, A&C Black

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• Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

  Guy Claxton

  Moving, Two, People

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• The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.

  Frantisek Kupka

  Independent, Artist, Reality

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• Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.

  Lewis Baltz

  Meaningful, Photography, Art

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, People, Creative

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Education, Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom

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• Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  People, Creative, Use

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• I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

  Jim Capaldi

  Pushing Boundaries, Pushing, Boundaries

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• Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Inspirational, Art, Science

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.42, Penguin

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• To define is to limit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Limits

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.336, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Success, Apples

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Science, Asking Questions

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hands, Creative, Anxiety

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• The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.

  Verner Panton

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Work

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• In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Creative, Our Lives

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.15, Souvenir Press

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• I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

  Richard Florida

  Keys, Creative, Age

  Richard Florida (2010). “The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Melania Trump Quote Sounds Suspiciously Similar To Marla Maples" by Alana Horowitz Satlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 04, 2016.

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• The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

  Twyla Tharp

  Nuts, Innovation, No Fear

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

  Alice Walker

  Family, Mother, Flower

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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