Creativity Quotes

A lot of people have taste, but they don’t have the daring to be creative.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

I will master something, then the creativity will come.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainty.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superflous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

I do not seek, I find.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

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

When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

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

Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action.

I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

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

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

Don't compare, just create.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet.

You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

A sunday well-spent brings a week of content.

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

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Balance is not something you find. It's something you create.