Wonderful Quotes About Creativity

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

A picture is a poem without words.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

To create, one must first question everything.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

There's a way to do it better -- find it.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Creativity takes courage.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.

There's the whole world at your feet.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun.

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.

There are no problems--only opportunities to be creative.

Creativeness is the only thing that shows our imagination.

There is no need to rush. Creativity is all about taking the scenic route.

A disorder is not a disorder if everything is in order.

Creativity 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.

Creativity ... consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

Creativity is nothing I do. Creativity is something God does. Stop forcing it. Let God do it.

The idea is there, locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

Ideas come from everything.

Broken symmetry is imperfection, but rich in creativity. The universe is created out of broken symmetry.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.

The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.

Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

In the end, creativity isn't just the things we choose to put in, it's the things we choose to leave out.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

A lack of imagination results in a lack of living.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things -- like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

Creative thinking is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Creativity's about ownership.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Creativity -- like human life itself -- begins in darkness.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Many of those who are advised to think outside the box do not even think inside the box.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

To be creative means to be in love with life.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

We first create in the mind, then the hands. But we stop creating if there is no heart.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter forcing spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Written reports stifle creativity.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Creativity is one of the highest transmissions of love.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

Imagination grows by exercise.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

We'll be 'outsourcing' our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our coiffeurs. Welcome to the Borg. You might not be entirely comfortable with such cybernetic enhancements, but all the smart money says it's going to happen.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

Creativity is not about the fame.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

For all creative people, that's sort of everyone's journey. You feel something inside, and it takes a while to figure out what that looks like and what your voice is.

I dream in fire but work in clay.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

Constraint inspires creativity.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Rule of art: Can't kills creativity!

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

It's not creative unless it sells.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum -- the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.

Find something only you can say.