Creativity Quotes

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination."

- Jim Jarmusch

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun."

- Pablo Picasso

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"There is no innovation or creativity without failure. Period."

- Brené Brown

"My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status."

- Ken Robinson

"Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you."

- Salvador Dali

"The creative adult is the child who survived."

- Ursula Leguin

"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."

- Lady Gaga

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

- Pablo Picasso

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action."

- Martha Graham

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive."

- Pearl S. Buck

"Ideas come from daydreaming. They come from drifting."

- Neil Gaiman

"Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes."

- Neil Gaiman

"Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor."

- Steven Pressfield

"Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice."

- Phil Cousineau

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity."

- Ray Bradbury

"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite – getting something down."

- Julia Cameron

"You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is…unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far"

- Alice Neel

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

- Steve Jobs

"Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits"

- Twyla Tharp

"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity."

- Edward de Bono

"Creativity is discontent translated into arts."

- Eric Hoffer

"Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business."

- Leo Burnett

"Creating opportunities means looking where others are not."

- Mark Cuban

"Listen to anyone with an original idea, no matter how absurd it may sound at first. If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need."

- William McKnight

"One sure-fire way to stay creative; force yourself to learn something new."

- Harvey Mackay

"Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution."

- Susan L. Taylor

"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."

- George Kneller