Motivational Quotes

Creativity

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

- Caesar, Julius

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

Twain, Mark

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

George, Gilbert

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

King, Florence

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

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

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

Sting

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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Creativity, as has been said, 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.

Kneller, George

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

Browder, Charles

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

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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 creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.

Ally, Carl

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

George Lois

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

Land, Edwin H.

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The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert

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

Robin Green

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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

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

Valery, Paul

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.

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

Saxe, John

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Genius is initiative on fire.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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To create something you must be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Amy Dacyczyn

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

Sackville, Margaret

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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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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

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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

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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

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

Cook, Mary Lou

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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 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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That which builds is better than that which is built.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo