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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
- Alfonso X
Creativity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Creativity

1.
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
Kroc, Ray

2.
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Doctorow, E. L.

3.
Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.
Wieder, Robert

4.
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Koestler, Arthur

5.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Land, Edwin H.

6.
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
Stephen Nachmanovitch

7.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
Auden, W. H.

8.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Bennett, Arnold

9.
The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Land, Edwin H.

10.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Blake, William

11.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
Stassinopoulos, Arianna

12.
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.
Podhoretz, Norman

13.
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.
Shekerjian, Denise

14.
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.
Ray, Man

15.
Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.
Stella Terrill Mann

16.
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
Paracelsus, Philipus A.

17.
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
King, Florence

18.
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
Woolf, Virginia

19.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

20.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Bono, Edward De

21.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Lee, Bruce

22.
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?
Horney, Karen

23.
Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.
Persius

24.
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.
Miller, Henry

25.
That which builds is better than that which is built.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.
Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
Amy Dacyczyn

27.
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.
Duchamp, Marcel

28.
It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
Williams, Tennessee

29.
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.
Dorfsman, Lou

30.
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.
Proust, Marcel

31.
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
Stephen Nachmanovitch

32.
The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.
Wheatley, Margaret J.

33.
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Jampolsky, Gerald G.

34.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Sandburg, Carl

35.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Fromm, Erich

36.
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied:'Only stand out of my light.'Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
John W. Gardner

37.
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
Sting

38.
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.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.
The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
Picasso, Pablo

40.
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
Asch, Sholem

41.
Genius is initiative on fire.
Jackson, George Holbrook

42.
The legs are the wheels of creativity.
Einstein, Albert

43.
To create something you must be something.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
Houston, Jean

45.
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
Aldiss, Brian

46.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Cecil B. DeMille

47.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
Caesar, Julius

48.
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.
Norman Podhoretz

49.
Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.
Goble, Frank

50.
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Valery, Paul


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