Creativity Quotes

"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."

- Julia Cameron

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done."

- Austin Kleon

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

- Bruce Garrabrandt

"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

"Serious design, serious play, is something else. For one thing, it often happens spontaneously, intuitively, accidentally or incidentally."

- Paula Scher

"Belief in your creative capacity lies at the heart of innovation."

- Tom and David Kelley

"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."

- Bill Moyers

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

- Bruce Garrabrandt

"You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Edwin Land

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"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 creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas."

- Abe Tannenbaum

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

- George Lois

"There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you’re trying to be like somebody else, then there isn’t."

- Tori Amos

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."

- Mary Shelley

"True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse.’"

- Arthur Rimbaud

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."

- Virginia Woolf

"The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place."

- James Baldwin

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

- Albert Einstein

"Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working."

- Henri Matisse

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It's the response to error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

- Erich Fromm

"Creativity means breaking out of established patterns to look at things in a different way."

- Edward de Bono

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

- C.E.M. Joad

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."

- Pablo Picasso