Creativity Quotes

"A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway."

- Webb Chiles

""If you're alive, you're a creative person.""

- Elizabeth Gilbert

""When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.""

- Dr. Dre

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

- Margaret Atwood

"Ideas are wilder than memories."

- V.E. Schwab

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else."

- Donald Knuth

"You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever’s in them rises to the surface in free play"

- Erik H. Erikson

"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."

- Pele

"Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating. The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating."

- Pearl S. Buck

"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"That which cannot be spoken can be sung; that which cannot be sung can be danced."

- French Proverb

"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it’s produced the most extraordinary results in human culture."

- Ken Robinson

"I just know that when I go on stage, I give everything I have, not only my legs, not only my feet, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I’m able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I’m able to love because I feel like it."

- Sylvie Guillem

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of the void but out of chaos."

- Mary Shelley

"Originality blooms where imitation refuses to take root."

"Imagination stretches reality as curiosity draws the map."

"A playful mind finds inspiration in unlikely corners."

"The brightest ideas often arrive disguised as peculiar notions."

"New ideas often arrive masked as gentle, persistent whispers."

"Great minds often plant their gardens in unlikely places."

"Creative sparks often start where routine thoughts end."

"Your thinking is a canvas—bold colors paint richer outcomes."

"The brightest solutions arrive for minds unafraid of detours."

"Give your thoughts space to play; genius hides in joyful moments."

"Let curiosity scribble in the margins of everyday decisions."

"Let sparks fly."

"Dreams are the brushstrokes of the soul, painting a masterpiece of your heart’s desires."

"The night is your canvas, paint it with your dreams."