Motivational Quotes

Creativity

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

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Wheatley, Margaret J.

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

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

Saxe, John

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mille, Agnes De

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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 essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Land, Edwin H.

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Asch, Sholem

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

Alfonso X

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

Sackville, Margaret

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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

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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.

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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 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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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Valery, Paul

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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

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

Cook, Mary Lou

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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

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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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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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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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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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Genius is initiative on fire.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Persius

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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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The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert