Quotes on Creativity

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.