Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Freeman

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Mark Frauenfelder

Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.

Mario Vargas Llosa

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Marilyn Monroe

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

Nikki Sixx

If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.

Nikki Sixx

Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat....If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started from. That is when you have lived a full life. That is the artist's path.

Nikki Giovanni

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

Nicki Minaj

A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

Nicki Minaj

As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion.

Nicholas Negroponte

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.

Nicholas Sparks

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

Pat Schneider

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

P. L. Travers

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

P. D. James

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

P. J. O'Rourke

Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

Martha Gellhorn

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Martha Graham

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

Martha Beck

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Marion Nestle

One can only be in awe of the creativity of chocolate marketers. My take is that if there is a health benefit, it is small.

Marianne Williamson

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

Marianne Williamson

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.

Marianne Williamson

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Marianne Williamson

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.

Marianne Williamson

There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone.

Marianne Williamson

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

Marianne Williamson

We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

Christina Aguilera

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Christina Aguilera

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Christian Dior

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Christian Louboutin

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

Gertrude Stein

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

Foster Friess

Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

George Washington Carver

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.