Creativity Quotes

"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."

- Giorgio Armani

"Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas."

- Marc Jacobs

"It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails."

- Romain Rolland

"Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Football is not just a game; it’s an art form. You have to be creative, think outside the box, and always be one step ahead of your opponent."

- Ronaldinho

"Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art."

- Arsene Wenger

"Football is a simple game. You need a ball and a place to play. But what makes it great is the passion and skill of the players."

- Dion Dublin

"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

- Marie Curie

"A perfect beauty of a sunflower! A perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! A sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze!"

- Allen Ginsberg

"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds – the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."

- Chuck Jones

"My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums."

- Mary Oliver

"The sunflower is mine, in a way."

- Vincent van Gogh

"A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror."

- Wilhelm Steinitz

"Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine."

- Rudolf Spielmann

"Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands!"

- Renaud and Kahn

"Chess is the art of analysis."

- Mikhail Botvinnik

"Chess is the art of analysis"

- Mikhail Botvinnik

"The beauty of a move lies not in its’ appearance but in the thought behind it"

- Aaron Nimzowitsch

"Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few"

- Georg Kieninger

"Chess isn’t a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions"

- Matthew Selman

"The beauty and creativity of chess masterpieces as an art form gives me a sense of musical inspiration and wonder about what the human mind is capable of"

- Keith Oxman

"The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale."

- Vera Nazarian

"Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper."

- Julia Child

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."

- Dante Alighieri

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."

- Martin Luther

"You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day."

"Every Sunday is a gift and a chance to make something beautiful."

"Tuesdays are like tacos, slightly messy but filled with potential."