Motivational Quotes

Creativity

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Creativity

The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browder, Charles

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

Koestler, Arthur

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert

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

Frank Thomas

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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 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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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

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Persius

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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.

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

Eric A. Burns

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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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I do not seek, I find.

Picasso, Pablo

30.

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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Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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To create something you must be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Genius is initiative on fire.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Robin Green

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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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

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.

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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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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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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That which builds is better than that which is built.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sting

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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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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