Motivational Quotes

Creativity

Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently.

- Eric A. Burns

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

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

Persius

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Mille, Cecil B. De

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Fromm, Erich

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

Browder, Charles

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Valery, Paul

I do not seek, I find.

Picasso, Pablo

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To create something you must be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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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

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Sandburg, Carl

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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

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

Wheatley, Margaret J.

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Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

Michele Shea

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Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.

I Ching

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We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.

George, Gilbert

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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

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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

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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

Sarton, May

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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.

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I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

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

Asch, Sholem

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

King, Florence

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The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Picasso, Pablo

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That which builds is better than that which is built.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

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

Aldiss, Brian

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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

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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.

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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

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

Cook, Mary Lou

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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

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One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc.

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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

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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bennett, Arnold

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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Sackville, Margaret

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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

Alfonso X

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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

Henle, Mary