Creativity Quotes

"To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together."

- Henry Winkler

"Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving."

- Brandon Boyd

"I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing."

- Karen Thompson Walker

"Writing is mentally stimulating; it’s like a puzzle that makes you think all the time."

- Stephanie Zimbalist

"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."

- John Dryden

"Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you."

- Judith Jamison

"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."

- Mata Hari

"Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before."

- Shel Silverstein

"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it."

- Osho

"The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July."

- E.V. Lucas

"It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens."

- Imogen Heap

"All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching."

- Charles Spurgeon

"A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind."

- Webb Chiles

"You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day."

- Viggo Mortensen

"If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body."

- Helen Keller

"Dance is a language beyond words, expressing that for which we have no words."

- Jennifer de Leon

"I don’t sell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has to hold the engines in."

- Enzo Ferrari

"Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives."

- Chris Bangle

"I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them."

- T-Pain

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

- Saul Bellow

"As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist"

- Armin van Buuren

"If you want to get unusual results, work fast and work cheap, because there’s more of a chance that you’ll get somewhere that nobody else did"

- Brian Eno

"Mothers are the necessity of invention."

- Bill Watterson

"I have captured the light and arrested its flight. The sun itself shall draw my pictures."

- Louis Daguerre

"An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better."

- Clayton Christensen

"Weird is rad."

"A car is like a blank canvas, and the journey is your brushstroke."

"Our project wouldn’t have been the same without your invaluable insight and creativity!"

"Every nurse has a best friend, Pam: LorazePAM, DiazePAM, and ClonazePAM…"

- Unknown

"A nurse’s blood type? Coffee."

- Unknown