Motivational Quotes

Creativity

I do not seek, I find.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

Persius

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

Sackville, Margaret

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

George Lois

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

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.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Browder, Charles

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

Caesar, Julius

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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Amy Dacyczyn

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

Valery, Paul

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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Artaud, Antonin

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Sting

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

Land, Edwin H.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Alfonso X

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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.

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

Saxe, John

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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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

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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