Motivational Quotes

Creativity

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

- Asch, Sholem

Best Quotes about Creativity

The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again.

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

Persius

One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Artaud, Antonin

I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy-the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Podhoretz, Norman

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Asch, Sholem

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Cook, Mary Lou

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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Picasso, Pablo

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Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

Houston, Jean

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All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.

Duchamp, Marcel

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Land, Edwin H.

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

Bono, Edward De

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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Auden, W. H.

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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Doctorow, E. L.

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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Norman Podhoretz

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Fromm, Erich

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Blake, William

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There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Koestler, Arthur

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Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

Frank Thomas

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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Aldiss, Brian

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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Fromm, Erich

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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

Miller, Henry

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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Amy Dacyczyn

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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Lee, Bruce

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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Williams, Tennessee

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The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Land, Edwin H.

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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc

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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

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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Klee, Paul

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Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Sandburg, Carl

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It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

Saxe, John

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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

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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Sackville, Margaret

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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

Yeats, William Butler

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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Ray, Man

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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

Alfonso X

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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

Sarton, May

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

George Lois

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Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Dorfsman, Lou

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That which builds is better than that which is built.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch