Creativity Quotes

"Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation."

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."

- Charles Mingus

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

- Edward de Bono

"If it doesn’t sell; it isn’t creative."

- David Ogilvy

"The important thing for you is to be alert, to question, to find out, so that your own initiative may be awakened."

- Bruce Lee

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."

- Ray Bradbury

"Think left and think right, and think low and think high; Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try."

- Dr. Seuss

"Know where to find the information and how to use it. That’s the secret of success."

- Albert Einstein

"Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build."

- Gene Luen Yang

"The challenge for leaders is to learn how to think differently - and even more powerfully, how to think differently together."

- Nick Udall

"Creativity is contagious, pass it on."

- Albert Einstein

"If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling at the problem."

- Hilary Mantel

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."

- Pablo Picasso

"Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

- Eric Hoffer

"You have all the reason to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."

- Denis Waitley

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."

- Brené Brown

"Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks."

- Yo-Yo Ma

"Without freedom, there is no creation."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Gerald G. Jampolsky

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity."

- Linda Naiman

"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."

- Mikhail Bakunin

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."

- Donatella Versace

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

- Arthur Rimbaud

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

- Charles Mingus

"Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity."

- Marina Abramovic

"There are no old roads to new directions."