Creativity Quotes

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

- John Ruskin

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

- Alfred North Whitehead

"The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."

- Jean Piaget

"Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic."

- Lillian Jackson Braun

"Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people."

- Andre Norton

"Don’t wait for permission to do something creative."

- Ava DuVernay

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

- Samuel Butler

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

- Albert Camus

"I often write about the moon, and more often than not, it is to symbolise a person, or a quality."

- Gulzar

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

- Anton Chekhov

"The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you’re doing it, there’s nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I’m ploughing up and down the pool."

- Sophie Hannah

"Think Creatively"

- Hustle Inspires Hustle

"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life."

- Dr. Mae Jemison

"I wouldn’t be a songwriter if it wasn’t for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see."

- Taylor Swift

"The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are."

- Brian May

"The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes."

- Helen Bevington

"Creativity is intelligence having fun"

- Albert Einstein

"The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation."

- Robert Iger

"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because, a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

- Bill Gates

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing."

- Marc Chagall

"All political movements are basically anti-creative — since a political movement is a form of war. “There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here,” that’s what they always say. “Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around.” “As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers.” Both favor alcohol and are against pot."

- William S. Burroughs

"The best way I would describe the effect of the marijuana and the hashish is that it would make me relaxed and creative."

- Steve Jobs

"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives."

- Mel Brooks

"Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist. I am very sensitive to the interactions I have with people. Whether it’s a momentary glance in an elevator, or a deep philosophical conversation over dinner, or a brush-by in a café, I feel (sometimes exhaustingly) attuned and affected by the subtle exchanges that pass seemingly benignly between us as human ships. Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do."

- Alanis Morissette

"Science isn't about why! It’s about why not!"

- Cave Johnson

"Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art."

- Arsene Wenger

"Creativity is intelligence, having fun"

- Albert Einstein

"Everything begins with an idea."

"Wishing you a Sunday full of inspiration and creativity. Follow your passions and let your heart guide you."

"Big Ideas"