Quotations similar to CREATIVITY - INSPIRATION
Also see CREATIVITY AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. - John Updike
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. - Alan Alda
Coffee: creative lighter fluid. - Floyd Maxwell
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. - Erich Fromm
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. - Michael J Gelb
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. - Edward de Bono
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. - Arthur Koestler
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. - Mary Lou Cook
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.- James Russell Lowell
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. - Bill Moyers
Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. - Thomas Disch
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. - William Plomer
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. - Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Down time is where we become ourselves… a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity. - Anna Quindlen
Every child has an inner artist. The challenge is to remain an artist after you grow up.
- Pablo Picasso
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg C Lichtenberg
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. - William James
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. - Vincent Van Gogh
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to us when we go for walks. - Raymond Inman
If you hear a voice within you say "You cannot paint," then by all means paint, & that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. - John Cleese
If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you. - Louis L’Amour
In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls. - Sark
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. - Vida D. Scudder
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. - Charles Mingus
Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life. - Deepak Chopra
Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.
- Hugh Macleod
Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play. - Merrill Douglass
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline. - George J Seidel
The essence of the creative mind is to see the familiar as old-fashioned. - Unknown
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. - Saul Steinberg
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. - Albert Einstein
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. - Stephen Naclunanovitch
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. - Arthur Koestler
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. - Linus Pauling
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. - Henry David Thoreau
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes. It's what we do with them that's important. - Ruth Ross
There cannot be creation without a lot of energy. - Emil Nolde
Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. - Ray Bradbury
To be creative, relax and let your mind go to work. - Kenneth H Gordon Jr
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. - George Kneller
We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do. - Mary Richards
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