People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.
~By Helmut Newton ~
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
~By Gary Coleman ~
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
~By Mark Udall ~
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
~By Robin Trower ~
I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.
~By David Amram ~
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~By Scott Adams ~
We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
~By Shirley Williams ~
Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.
~By Billy Higgins ~
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
~By Edward de Bono ~
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.
~By Jeff Hawkins ~
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.
~By Carole King ~
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
~By Charles Mingus ~
Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.
~By Loris Malaguzzi ~
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
~By Greg Anderson ~
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
~By Jean Dubuffet ~
Creativity takes courage.
~By Henri Matisse ~
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
~By Bernice Fitz-Gibbon ~
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~By Sophia Loren ~
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
~By Julia Cameron ~
It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.
~By Peter Bart ~
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.
~By Brad Paisley ~
Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
~By Michael Mann ~
So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
~By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ~
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
~By David Byrne ~
I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
~By Rita Dove ~
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
~By William J. Wilson ~
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
~By Jack Bowman ~
To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.
~By Ron Kind ~
I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
~By Rollo May ~
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
~By Edwin Land ~
What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.
~By Lois Capps ~
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.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
~By Julia Margaret Cameron ~
If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.
~By Jim Gilmore ~
Written reports stifle creativity.
~By Ross Perot ~
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
~By Shania Twain ~
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
~By Dee Hock ~
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
~By Joichi Ito ~
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
~By Doug Coupland ~
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
~By William Bernbach ~
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
~By Jean Houston ~
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
~By Otto Rank ~
We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.
~By Johannes Rau ~
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
~By David Neeleman ~
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
~By Martha Beck ~
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
~By Jean Houston ~
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.
~By Paul Stanley ~
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.
~By Greg Lake ~
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
~By William Pollard ~
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
~By Holly Near ~
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
~By William Plomer ~
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
~By Bernice Fitz-Gibbon ~
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
~By Erich Fromm ~
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
~By Robert Iger ~
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.
~By Robert Trout ~
But out of limitations comes creativity.
~By Debbie Allen ~
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
~By Al Gore ~
To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
When I think about my new CD, the word "joy" comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.
~By George Duke ~
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
~By Nnamdi Azikiwe ~
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
~By Tadao Ando ~
There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
~By Naomi Watts ~
My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.
~By Roger Wilkins ~
I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.
~By Scott Bakula ~
Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.
~By George Shearing ~
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
~By Julia Cameron ~
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
~By Abdelaziz Bouteflika ~
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
~By Brian Aldiss ~
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
~By Frank Capra ~
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
~By Brian Aldiss ~
I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
~By Ben Okri ~
What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things.
~By Suzanne Somers ~
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
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