"I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline."
Read quote
9 likes
Creativity quotes
Creativity
3.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Creativity
Browse quotes that often appear alongside creativity — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Creativity quotes (page 22 of 167)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"It is important that the female develops a reality that honors and nurtures her femininity and has an identity and creativity of her own. It is equally important that the male in the relationship endorses that creativity."
Read quote
9 likes
"Imagination governs the world."
Read quote
9 likes
"Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God."
Read quote
9 likes
"If you've got a talent, protect it."
Read quote
9 likes
"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
Read quote
9 likes
"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
Read quote
9 likes
"The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity."
Read quote
9 likes
"Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature."
Read quote
8 likes
"Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured."
Read quote
8 likes
"Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."
Read quote
8 likes
"Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone."
Read quote
8 likes
"Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea."
Read quote
8 likes
"You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, you’re not the puppet of the piano, you’re not the puppet of the muse, but you’re not its master, either. It’s a relationship, it’s a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over."
Read quote
8 likes
"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."
Read quote
8 likes
"I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice."
Read quote
8 likes
"As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am."
Read quote
8 likes
"The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe."
Read quote
8 likes
"I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity."
Read quote
8 likes
"Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded."
Read quote
8 likes