Creativity quotes

“Look, I really don't want to wax philosophical, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mel Brooks

“To defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds.”
Adrien Brody - Henry Barthes

“Don't you blame the movies. Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative!”
Skeet Ulrich - Billy Loomis

“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”
Frank Capra

“I have to believe in everything in order to make things up.”
Harvey Keitel - Mick Boyle

“Reality may be very interesting, but a work of art must be a creation.”
Jean Renoir

“Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.”
Jeff Bridges

“In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.”
Julie Walters

“Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.”

Martin Sheen - Carl Fox

“- Lisa: I wish I were creative.
- Jeff: You are. You're great at creating difficult situations.”
Grace Kelly - Lisa Carol Fremont
James Stewart - L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies

“- Jamie: I really loved your film. That scene with the dogs around the garbage. How did you stage that?
- Josh: I said 'Hey, shoot those dogs'.”
Adam Driver - Jamie
Ben Stiller - Josh

“Poems don't always have to rhyme, you know. They're just supposed to be creative.”
Jared Gilman - Sam

“A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.”

Joe Mantegna - David Rossi

“Once a great inventor, always a great inventor. There is always something else.”
Keegan-Michael Key - Gustafson

“Brilliance beckons! Genius awaits!”
Forest Whitaker - Jeronicus

“All my favorite things start off as bad ideas.”
Maddie Baillio - Millie

“Creativity and psychosis often go hand in hand. Or, for that matter, genius and madness.”
Samantha Soule - Miss Jean Blake

“I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.”
Karen Gillan

“The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.”
Lesley Manville

“Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.”
Idris Elba

“Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.”
Mahershala Ali

“- Peggy Walsh: When did you get this idea Jim?
- Jimmy Ringo: Well I didn't get it, it just kinda' came over me. The way gettin' older comes over ya. All of a sudden you look at things different then the way ya did five years ago. All of a sudden I knew this was the only thing in the world I wanted.”
Helen Westcott - Peggy Walsh
Gregory Peck - Jimmy Ringo

“I've done some psych experiments, but in my mind I'm still about to write my great Broadway musical.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“Just create something... new, and there it is, and it's you, out in the world, outside of you, and you can look at it, or hear it, or read it, or feel it... and you know a little more about... you. A little bit more than anyone else does.”
Hilary Swank - Holly

“- Katherine: Cocteau was Cocteau before he ever did... drugs.
- Owen: What are you saying?
- Katherine: That it's not going to help you.”
Elaine C. Grove - Katherine
Bob Brady - Owen