Creativity Quotes

"Vision is the true creative rhythm."

- Robert Delaunay

"All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result."

- Stephen R. Covey

"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."

- Edith Wharton

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

- Carl Sagan

"The imagination is man’s power over nature."

- Wallace Stevens

"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."

- Neil Gaiman

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."

- Joseph Joubert

"Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs."

- Joe Biden

"Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity."

- Amala Akkineni

"Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."

- Tina Turner

"Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity."

- Guy Fieri

"As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills."

- Alain Dehaze

"Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics."

- Victor Pinchuk

"When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high."

- Kendrick Lamar

"The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting an idea grow in your mind in the short term with a deadline and a plan can actually lead to innovation and creativity."

- Jay Shetty

"Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too."

- Jimmy Buffett

"An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version."

- Richard Dawkins

"without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language… I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child."

- Claude Debussy

"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

- Marcel Duchamp

"In writing songs I’ve learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie."

- Bob Dylan

"What is possible in art becomes thinkable in life."

- Brian Eno

"Having no silence in music is like having no black or white in a painting."

- Brian Eno

"Great artists are people who find a way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike."

- Dame Margot Fonteyn

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity"

- Nadine Gordimer

"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer."

- Robert Graves

"October is the month for painted leaves."

- Henry David Thoreau

"True intelligence requires fabulous imagination."

- Ian McEwan

"The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you’re able to let life meet life. If you’re having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down …Creativity exists in the present moment. You can’t find it anywhere else."

- Natalie Goldberg

"Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John."

- Boris Pasternak