Creativity Quotes

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don't think about making art, just get it done."

- Andy Warhol

"Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

- Walt Disney

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control."

- Julia Cameron

"Serious art is born from serious play."

- Julia Cameron

"You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Charles Mingus

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Doors are for people with no imagination."

- Derek Landy

"Imagination rules the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."

- Frank Capra

"Replace fear with curiosity."

- Steven Spielberg

"Creativity is the art of concealing your source."

- Coco Chanel

"All creative people want to do the unexpected."

- Hedy Lamarr

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

- Twyla Tharp

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."

- Michelangelo

"To have a great idea, have a lot of them."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."

- Rita Mae Brown

"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."

- John Updike

"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

"In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public."

- Shah Rukh Khan

"I apply the term ‘creativity’ broadly… it’s problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that’s where creativity comes in."

- Edwin Catmull

"If an organization values innovation, you can assume it’s safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters."

- Adam Grant

"For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate."

- Margaret Heffernan

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

- Bob Iger

"I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts."

- Bill Gates

"If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect."

- Steven Johnson

"Creativity is not a competition."

"Create something today even if it sucks."