Creativity Quotes

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

"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 merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
-John Updike

"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."
-Jean Anouilh

"Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."
-Julia Cameron

"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise."
-Julia Cameron

"The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge."
-Stephen Nachmanovitch

"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
-Dr. Rollo May

"Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to."
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."
-Dee Hock

"Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently."
-Eric A. Burns

"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
-Henri Cartier bresson

"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
-Nadine Gordimer

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

"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without."
-Cecil B. DeMille

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."
-Henri Matisse

"The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields."
-Matthew Tobriner

"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."
-Ben Okri

"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening."
-Daisaku Ikeda

"I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight."
-Robin Green

"Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest."
-Jef I. Richards

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."
-Orson Welles

"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within."
-Louise Nevelson

"For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications."
-William N. Lipscomb, Jr.

"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."
-John W. Gardner

"Handled creatively, getting fired allows an executive to actually experience a sense of relief that he never wanted the job he has lost."
-Frank P. Louchheim

"Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw."
-Frank Thomas

"Frugality without creativity is deprivation."
-Amy Dacyczyn