Creativity Quotes

"Light in Nature creates the movement of colors."

- Robert Delaunay

"There is only one kind of painting: landscape. It is the most difficult. It has also, I believe, the most simple kind of composition. Because no one can stop us from imagining the world in the way that pleases us most."

- André Derain

"Art takes nature as its model."

- Aristotle

"The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature."

- Ansel Adams

"Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you."

- Claude Monet

"Art will never be able to exist without nature."

- Pierre Bonnard

"The artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena."

- Odilon Redon

"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people."

- Grandma Moses

"Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms."

- Milton Avery

"Nature is a haunted house — but Art — is a house that tries to be haunted."

- Emily Dickinson

"Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity."

- Captain Kirk

"Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff."

- Aaron Ross

"Human subtlety... will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"I'm a 'blue sky thinker' and dream big."

- Hilary Knight

"For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer."

- Tommy Caldwell

"I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know."

- Adora Svitak

"A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards."

- Jim Hunt

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

- Arsene Wenger

"Good soccer players need not be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, your ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases, skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues."

- Eduardo Galeano

"My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not know what he will do until he sees the defenders’ reactions."

- Ronaldinho

"I've got you trapped in my well-defined musculature, so don't even..."

- Ben Reilly

"Mistakes are the foundation of innovation."

- Elon Musk

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follow."

- Steve Jobs

"Make it simple, but significant."

- Don Draper

"Creativity is more than just being different… Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."

- Charles Mingus

"A recipe has no soul; you, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe."

- Thomas Keller

"I feel creativity flowing through me."

"The day is your canvas, paint it well."

"Eating is a necessity, but cooking is an art."

"Everything begins with an idea"