Motivational Quotes

Creativity

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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Best Quotes about Creativity

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

Saxe, John

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Browder, Charles

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Aldiss, Brian

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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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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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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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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Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Sting

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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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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That which builds is better than that which is built.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robin Green

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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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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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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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

Eric A. Burns

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

Mille, Agnes De

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

Land, Edwin H.

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

Caesar, Julius

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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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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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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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Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.

Goble, Frank

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.

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

Cook, Mary Lou

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