Motivational Quotes

Creativity

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

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

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

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

Saxe, John

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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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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Mille, Agnes De

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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

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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Picasso, Pablo

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Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Aldiss, Brian

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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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That which builds is better than that which is built.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To create something you must be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Valery, Paul

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

Frank Thomas

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

Eric A. Burns

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

Land, Edwin H.

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Genius is initiative on fire.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Sting

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I do not seek, I find.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Amy Dacyczyn

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Wheatley, Margaret J.