Creativity Quotes

"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable."

- William Pollard

"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation."

- Mason Cooley

"Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’; And then do it."

- Duane Michals

"Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it’s easy to thwart."

- Adam Grant

"Creativity is not just for artists. It’s for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it’s for engineers trying to solve a problem; it’s for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way."

- Twyla Tharp

"The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes."

- Ross Perot

"Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked."

- Neil Blumenthal

"To me there’s no creativity without boundaries. If you’re gonna write a sonnet, it’s 14 lines, so it’s solving the problem within the container."

- Lorne Michaels

"Ideas control the world."

- James A. Garfield

"The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it."

- Dee Hock

"For us, creativity means thinking about the lives of our audience and how to connect with them."

- Anna Wintour

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."

- Jonathan Swift

"Artists are like the Phoenix, they periodically have to self-immolate, burn off an aspect of themselves to give birth to something new. The blank canvas demands you exceed yourself. And most times you fail. This pisses you off so bad you want to quit making art or makes some artists want to quit living. But then you calm down and come back to the work."

- Alex Grey

"Transformative art must express something beyond where you are, it demands that you grow beyond your current self. This is where an artist’s angst and the pain of transformation coincide. You reach toward the true, the good and the beautiful and become a better person through the struggle."

- Alex Grey

"I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbour a greater life than we know."

- Jean Houston

"Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is “to fit together” and we all do this every day. Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating – whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day."

- Corita Kent

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age."

- Sophia Loren

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds."

- Rollo May

"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution."

- Rollo May

"When I am…completely myself, entirely alone…or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these come I know not nor can I force them…Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together, go to the making of a genius. Love, love, love: that is the soul of genius."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."

- Robert Motherwell

"Often what the artist expresses is unconscious, but we can learn to decode the story by collaboratively finding the pieces to the puzzle that create new possibilities for innovation."

- Linda Naiman

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals or nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations."

- Ben Okri

"In the canvas of life, pink is the brushstroke that brings a touch of playfulness to our existence."

"With each brushstroke of pink, we create a masterpiece of love and positivity."