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Creativity Quotes

Last updated: September 24, 2024

38 Creativity Quotes organized by Most Popular

“Money is necessary and great. But doing what you love, creating and the thing created, that’s ultimately far more important than the amount of zeroes in your bank account.”
— Chris Lavergne, Thought Catalog And The New Age Of Confessional Media
Tagged: Money, Creativity, Grand Scheme
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
— Albert Einstein, via Wikiquote
Tagged: Imagination, Creativity, Visions
“Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.”
— Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
Tagged: Writing, Creativity, Creatives, Habit, Routine
“We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
Tagged: Ray Bradbury, Creativity, Writing, Express, Essays
“Every true artist is at war with the world.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Creativity, Innovation, Exploring the Possibilites, Individuality
“All humans are artists, all of us.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery (Toltec Wisdom)
Tagged: Creativity, Creation
“Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could...”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Tagged: Creativity, Art, Artistic Growth, Self-Expression, Self-Confidence
“I only write when I'm inspired. I don't make sure I'm inspired every day at 10 AM; I don't work that way.”
— Maggie Rodgers, Maggie Rogers Is More than an Internet Sensation Who Made Pharrell Cry
Tagged: Creativity
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
— Albert Einstein, A quote by Albert Einstein
Tagged: Intelligence, Creativity, Imagination
“Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.”
— Deepak Chopra, Quote
Tagged: Universe, Understanding, Imaginationa, Creativity, Knowledge
“If you had stars inside your brain cells you’d probably understand what I am talking about.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Tagged: brain cells, Stars, Comprehension, Understand, Creativity, Mind
“Creativity thrives on constraints.”
— Jake Parker, Design 100 Somethings e005
Tagged: Creativity, Challenge, Restriction, Limits, Growth
“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”
— Claude Debussy, The Life of the Creative Spirit
Tagged: Art, Lies, beauty, Creativity, Painting
“Every human being is an artist.”
— Joseph Beuys, We are the Revolution!: Rudolf Steiner, Joseph Beuys, and the Threefold Social Impulse
Tagged: Artist, Creativity, Human Nature, Art, Talent
“Shall we say I had fun with my imagination?”
— Muriel Spark, Introduction
Tagged: Imagination, Creativity, On Being A Writer, Imagining New Worlds
“What is creativity? Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic, Creativity
“A touch of madness can unleash the great potential we have as artists or as human beings. By creating things and putting all our madness in one project, we can create a masterpiece. By putting our madness to good use, we can help others and help ourselves.”
— Rania Naim, Why A Touch Of Madness Can Sometimes Be The Key To A Happy Life
Tagged: Madness, Creativity
“Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”
— Keri Smith, How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
Tagged: Creative, Creativity, Artist
“A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…”
— Alice Walker, The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
Tagged: Art, Literature, Music, Creativity, Writing, creating, expressing, frail heart, Inspirations, heart of a creative person
“I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”
— John Keats, The Man Behind The Lyrics
Tagged: Creativity, Passion
“Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.”
— Edouard Manet, Edouard Manet Quotes
Tagged: Creativity, artistry, Imagination, Uncertainty
“No such thing as original thought. We are shadows of stars that burned before our time.”
— Tom Hiddleston, Tom Hiddleston‏ on Twitter
Tagged: Originality, Creativity, imitation
“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.”
— David Bailey, David Bailey interview for "The Face" Magazine(1984)
Tagged: Photography, Creativity
“I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.”
— August Strindberg, Intimate Journals Of Paul Gauguin
Tagged: Courage, Creativity
“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”
— Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within(Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
Tagged: Creativity, Passion, Live A Better Life, Follow Your Dreams
“There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.”
— Gustav Klimt, Gustav Klimt: In Search of the Total Artwork
Tagged: Hope, Art, Creativity, Ideas
“Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feels very much like freedom.”
— Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated
Tagged: Female Pleasure, Self-knowledge, Creativity, Prioritizing Female Pleasure, Female Desire, Liberation, Female Sexuality
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Imagination, power of the mind, Creativity, creative mind
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
— Albert Einstein, via Amazon
Tagged: Life, Solitude, Creativity
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch, On Vessels Filled and Fires Kindled
Tagged: Mind, Knowledge, Creativity, Wisdom
“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Tagged: place to breathe, Freedom, Creativity, Expressing Yourself, Living, Life
“Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are
Tagged: Work Processes, Creativity, Making Art, Ethics of Building Great Things, Create In Movement/Air
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
— Pablo Picasso, via Wikiquote
Tagged: Child, Artist, Artistic, Creativity, creative mind, Grow Up, creative loss, kids, Problem, maturity, Learning, learning process, education system, Society, Inspirational
“That creativity is dying to get out. ”
— Will Terry
Tagged: Creativity, expression
“I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark.”
— Serge Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg on Tumblr
Tagged: nocturnal, Night, Ideas, Creativity
“New York has closed itself off to the young and struggling… New York City has been taken away from you … So my advice is: Find a new city.”
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
Tagged: New York, Artists, Writing, Creativity, Cities, Quote of the Moment
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein, Saturday Evening Post
Tagged: Imagination, Knowledge, Importance, Creativity
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”
— Tim Burton, The Films of Tim Burton, The Loft Cinema
Tagged: craziness, Insanity, Creativity, Imagination