Motivational Quotes

Creativity

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

Best Quotes about Creativity

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

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

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

Bono, Edward De

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Mille, Agnes De

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

Alfonso X

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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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 essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Land, Edwin H.

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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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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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I do not seek, I find.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

King, Florence

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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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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 legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein, Albert

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

Aldiss, Brian

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

Robin Green

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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 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.

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

George, Gilbert

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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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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Asch, Sholem

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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.

Valery, Paul

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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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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Frank Thomas

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Stella Terrill Mann

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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.