Motivational Quotes

Creativity

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

- King, Florence

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

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

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

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.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.

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

Sackville, Margaret

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

Sting

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

Frank Thomas

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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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That which builds is better than that which is built.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Valery, Paul

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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 essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Land, Edwin H.

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

Persius

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

Saxe, John

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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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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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Genius is initiative on fire.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Twain, Mark

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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Eric A. Burns

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I do not seek, I find.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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