Creativity Quotes

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

Mary Lou Cook

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Albert Einstein

Art is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstanding and deep disappointments. You must be prepared for all this, expect it, and nevertheless, stubbornly, fantastically follow your own way.

Anton Chekov

Don't criticize yourself while you're creating.

Adam Grant

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Henry Ford

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

Austin Kleon

Procrastination is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

Adam Grant

An artist’s job is to collect ideas, and what better way than to read.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can't take a taxi.

Alan Alda

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Steve Jobs

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

Albert Einstein

Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.

Bruce Garrabrandt

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

Steve Jobs

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

Scott Adams

Creativity is subtraction.

Austin Kleon

Creativity is contagious, pass it on.

Albert Einstein

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.

Steve Jobs

It is an example of the spectacular creativity that accrues from dissecting the details of multiple diverse domains and disciplines and applying the discovered best practices.

Story Musgrave

An artist wants to release feelings through art. To provoke feelings in the viewer, even if the viewer is only the artist, themselves.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is about connections.

Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.

Steve Jobs

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life.

Sophia Loren

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

James Russell Lowell

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Mason Cooley

This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Edward de Bono

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Donatella Versace

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

John Updike

People have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

Paul Ryan

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.

Steve Jobs

To be creative means to be in love with life.

Osho

Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Bill Moyers

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

Scott Adams

Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.

Dr Seuss

It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

Peter F Drucker

It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.

Jean-Luc Godard

If you’re alive, you’re a creative person.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

Voltaire

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time. They’re different processes.

Corita Kent

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin Land

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Edward de Bono

Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

Nolan Bushnell

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

Dieter F Uchtdorf

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Edward de Bono