Motivational Quotes

Creativity

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

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

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

George Lois

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Twain, Mark

Genius is initiative on fire.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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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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

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

George, Gilbert

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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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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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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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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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To create something you must be something.

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

Bono, Edward De

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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Amy Dacyczyn

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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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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 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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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

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

Mille, Agnes De

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

Fromm, Erich

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Dorfsman, Lou

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

Sting

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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 most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

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

Wheatley, Margaret J.

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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

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

Aldiss, Brian

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

Frank Thomas

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

Koestler, Arthur