Motivational Quotes

Creativity

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

- Land, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Creativity

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Aldiss, Brian

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The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again.

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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.

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I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robin Green

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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

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Jung, Carl

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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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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 is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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 seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Persius

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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

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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.

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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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Genius is initiative on fire.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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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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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

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

Sting

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Caesar, Julius

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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Klee, Paul

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

Asch, Sholem

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The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

Kellogg, John

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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 most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

Miller, Henry

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The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Dickens, Charles

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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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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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Kroc, Ray

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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 problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Dee Hock

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

Valery, Paul