Creativity Quotes

"As a lawyer, I can assure you that a lot of document drafting is repetitive, involving cutting and pasting from templates. But the best lawyers bring a unique perspective to the process and anticipate clients’ problems."

- Ro Khanna

"If I see a problem, I like to think if there’s a better way to do it."

- Mark Rober

"Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field."

- Peter Adams

"I don’t trust words. I trust pictures."

- Gilles Peress

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

- Dorothea Lange

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."

- Marc Riboud

"Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising."

- Jeff I. Richards

"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Creativity is just connecting things."

- Steve Jobs

"Innovation comes from saying no to a thousand things."

- Steve Jobs

"If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does."

- Steve Jobs

"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. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things."

- Steve Jobs

"Real artists ship."

- Steve Jobs

"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works."

- Steve Jobs

"What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done."

- Steve Jobs

"Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, artists, zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields."

- Steve Jobs

"Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page."

- Steve Jobs

"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

"It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them."

- Steve Jobs

"I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

- Steve Jobs

"Everything was so new – the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them."

- Katherine Johnson

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."

- William Plomer

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."

- Pablo Picasso

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world."

- Albert Einstein

"Be curious, not judgmental."

- Walt Whitman

"Every morning is a blank canvas. You can make it whatever you want."

"Life’s canvas is the morning; colour it with care, and good vibes."

"Happy October! Let your creativity flow like leaves in the wind."

"In February, let’s strive for excellence and innovation."