Motivational Quotes

Creativity

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

- Cook, Mary Lou

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

Saxe, John

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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

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

Alfonso X

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

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Sackville, Margaret

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Wheatley, Margaret J.

12.

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.

13.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

14.

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

15.

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

16.

To create something you must be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Stella Terrill Mann

20.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

Yeats, William Butler

21.

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

22.

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

King, Florence

23.

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

24.

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

Koestler, Arthur

25.

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

Frank Thomas

26.

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.

27.

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

Robin Green

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Bono, Edward De

31.

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

Persius

32.

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.

33.

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

Cook, Mary Lou

34.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

George Lois

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Fromm, Erich

42.

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

Mille, Agnes De

43.

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

44.

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

Eric A. Burns

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Bennett, Arnold

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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.