Creativeness Quotes

• Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Creativity, Mean

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• Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Creativity

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• It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Men, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

  Joseph C Zinker

  Rewards, Rare Moments, Common

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• However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Struggle, Long, Triumph

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• We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Artistic, Remove

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• The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Feelings, Acting, Actors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.320, Routledge

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• You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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• Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

  Peter Max

  Inspirational, Mistake, Creativity

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• Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Creativity, Imagination, Effort

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivational, Dance, Teamwork

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

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

  Pat McGrath

  Motivational, Creativity, Makeup

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

  Arthur Fry

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Being Yourself

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• Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Music, Art

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• An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

  Lee Kun-hee

  Business, Lying, Creativity

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• To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Creativity, Breaking Rules

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• If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Nuts, People

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2012

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• I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

  Harry Crews

  Work, Creativity, Cutting

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• Once all come to know that by the concentration of the mind on one point, on one principle, on one desire, a power is radiated to that point with creative nature and demonstrative abilities, man will think more carefully, more constructively and more efficiently

  Harvey Spencer Lewis

  Inspirational, Power, Men

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

  Robert Rodriguez

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Change, Nature, Creative

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• Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

  Lisa Randall

  Art, Creativity, Science

  Lisa Randall (2012). “Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe”, p.398, Random House

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