Motivational Quotes

Creativity

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

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

Land, Edwin H.

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

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

Valery, Paul

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

Browder, Charles

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

Alfonso X

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

Wheatley, Margaret J.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

George, Gilbert

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hemingway, Ernest

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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 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

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

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

Sting

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

Frank Thomas

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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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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

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

Mille, Agnes De

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

Sackville, Margaret

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Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Klee, Paul

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Robin Green

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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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I do not seek, I find.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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