Motivational Quotes

Creativity

To create something you must be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about 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

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

Browder, Charles

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

George Lois

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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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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 legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert

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

Alfonso X

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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 a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Valery, Paul

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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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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Robin Green

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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Cook, Mary Lou

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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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To create something you must be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Amy Dacyczyn

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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

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

Eric A. Burns

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Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Frank Thomas

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

Land, Edwin H.

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur