Creativity Quotes


How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths. Amy Tan Creativity 277
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Edward De Bono Creativity 199
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. Robert Bresson Creativity 155
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. Gustave Flaubert Creativity 139
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. Warren Bennis Creativity 131
Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights. Deborah Day Creativity 120
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking Albert Einstein Creativity 115
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. Gerald G. Jampolsky Creativity 105
Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. George Kneller Creativity 103
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species. Friedrich Nietzsche Creativity 102
Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. Lady Gaga Creativity 100
We will not know unless we begin. Peter Nivio Zarlenga Creativity 99
The legs are the wheels of creativity. Albert Einstein Creativity 99
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form. Joichi Ito Creativity 99
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. Albert Einstein Creativity 96
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. Nnamdi Azikiwe Creativity 96
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday. Ray Kroc Creativity 95
We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad. Shekhar Kapur Creativity 95
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything. George Lois Creativity 95
Dont think about making art just get it done. Let everyone else decide if its good or bad whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding make even more art. Andy Warhol Creativity 94
The unlike is joined together and from differences results the most beautiful harmony. Heraclitus Creativity 93
Genius is initiative on fire. Holbrook Jackson Creativity 92
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources Albert Einstein Creativity 91
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. Alice Walker Creativity 90
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. Mary Lou Cook Creativity 89
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. Julia Cameron Creativity 89
Creativity is a continual surprise. Ray Bradbury Creativity 87
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. Sholem Asch Creativity 86
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. Man Ray Creativity 86
Creativity is what transforms. Ron Johnson Creativity 85
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them. J.K. Rowling Creativity 85
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud Creativity 85
Creativity is a delicious dream from which I never want to awake. K. Ford K.Creativity 85
Writing and drawing are very therapeutic but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present. Alice McCall Creativity 85
If youre one in a million and the world is full of seven billion people that means there are seven thousand people just like you. Jeff Goins Creativity 84
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. Norman Douglas Creativity 84
True alchemy lies in this formula Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse. Arthur Rimbaud Creativity 84
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. Kurt Vonnegut Creativity 83
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer Creativity 83
Reading conversation environment culture heroes mentors nature all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and youll find out how big a prize youve won. Twyla Tharp Creativity 83
Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen Fourteen Youve already let them beat your creativity out of you Laurie Halse Anderson Creativity 83
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form. Thomas Troward Creativity 82
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. W. Somerset Maugham Creativity 82
Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement? Karen Horney Creativity 79
Creativity is as important as literacy Ken Robinson Creativity 79
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. Hugh MacLeod Creativity 79
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. Bruce Lee Creativity 79
The story that we all live [is] the cycle of creation and destruction, of control and letting go, of picking up the pieces and making something new. Julie Burstein Creativity 79
When I am ..... completely myself entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Creativity 79
That opting out [of creativity] that happens in childhood ... moves in and becomes more ingrained by the time you get to adult life. David Kelley Creativity 78

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