All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. (Quote by - Clement Greenberg)

Begin with another's to end with your own. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. (Quote by - Daisaku Ikeda)

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes. (Quote by - Ross Perot)

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. (Quote by - Lou Dorfsman)

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. (Quote by - Tom Barrett)

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)

We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. (Quote by - Gilbert George)

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Quote by - Frank Capra)

She explored creativity in a lot of ways with the children. She wanted to bring out their innate creativity, not a rubber stamp. (Quote by - Logan Payne)

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. (Quote by - De Chateaubriand)

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. (Quote by - Mary Lou Cook)

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. (Quote by - Robert Cecil Day-lewis)

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area. (Quote by - Kim Gordon)

Some people see things and ask Why? I dream things which never were and askWhy not? (Quote by - Ketaki Bhave)

fantasies awakens our creative side; heightens our senses; and sets forth our dreams to come true. (Quote by - debbie nicholson)

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)

We intend the Creative New York study to be the catalyst for policymakers, creative professionals and local advocates to discuss the importance of sustaining the City's creative economy. Collectively, we need to find strategies that will not only impact the quality of life of those New Yorkers who currently comprise the creative economy, but also promote further development in a sector that has been a vital part of the city's history and culture. (Quote by - Robin Keegan)

The creative mind creates many things, even obstacles. (Quote by - Mike Metevelis)

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten. (Quote by - William Bernbach)

The acknowledgment of Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates by Time Magazine reflects the growing importance of philanthropy in society. The field of philanthropy is enduring a spectacular change fueled mostly by growth in size -- we have witnessed a 19% growth in the number of foundations in America during the past ten years -- and character. New and novel initiatives rise daily creating, in many respects, a time of optimism and creativity. Philanthropy is unique in that its resources go to creating long-term solutions and provides the opportunity and mandate to explore new creative solutions in ways not appropriate for public dollars. I think we have only just begun to see just how far this renewed interest in philanthropy is going to take us. (Quote by - Steve Gunderson)

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? (Quote by - Charles Du Bos)