Quotes about Creativity



      “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.”
-Cecile B DeMille

     “Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.”
-Ben Carson

      “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein


     “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

       “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

      “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

       “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams


     “Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.
-Marilyn Monroe

      “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
-Edwin Land


      “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
-Edward de Bono


      “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-Erich Fromm


      “Creativity takes courage. ” 
-Henri Matisse

       “Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
-James Russell Lowell


       “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 
-Sylvia Plath

       “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.”
-Steve Jobs

        “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” 
- Maya Angelou

       “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” 
-Pablo Picasso

       “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.” 
-Pablo Picasso



       “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” 
-Scott Adams

        “There is creative reading as well as creative writing.” 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


       “Creativity is just connecting things.”
- Steve Jobs

        “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” 
- Erich Fromm

      “Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.”
-Dee Hock

       “Creativity is an act of defiance.” 
-Twyla Tharp
     
        “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas”
- Donatella Versace


       “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
-Earl Nightingale


       “The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.”
-Mary Henle

      “Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
-Eric Hoffer


       “Creativity is contagious, pass it on”
-Albert Einstein

       “I go wherever my creativity takes me.
-Lil Wayne



      “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
-Brene Brown


       “Negativity is the enemy of creativity.
-David Lynch


       “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” 
-Joseph Chilton Pearce

       “The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions.”
-Antony Jay

       “Creativity is a continual surprise.” 
-Ray Bradbury

       “Creative without strategy is called ‘art’. Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising
- Anonymous.

       “Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
-Masaru Ibuka


      “Ideas are the seeds, not the substance, of creativity.”
-Michael Schrage

       “Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
-Gail Sheehy


      “To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.”
-Thomas Edison