Creativity Quotes

"Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect."

- Dave Pilkey

"This morning I took out a comma, and this afternoon I put it back again."

- Katherine Patterson

"The first draft is a skeleton. Just bare bones. The rest of the story comes later with revising."

- Judy Blume

"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."

- Noel Coward

"If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow."

- Jay-Z

"Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?"

- Jay-Z

"Within the mind are all the resources required for successful living. Ideas are present in the consciousness, which when released and given scope to grow and take shape, can lead to successful events."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world."

- Bryant McGill

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."

- Vincent van Gogh

"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colours enough to paint the beautiful things I see"

- Vincent van Gogh

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."

- Vincent van Gogh

"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination."

- Vincent van Gogh

"The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech."

- Vincent van Gogh

"From oppressive and crippling surroundings, George Washington Carver lifted his searching, creative mind to the ordinary peanut, and found therein extraordinary possibilities for goods and products unthinkable by minds of the past."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Doubts may grow as shadows loom, when you’re alone with your thoughts. Plant music, art, pics of the ones you love in the darkest corners. Harvest the fruits of your daydreams and rest. Water and sunlight to the best in you."

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun."

- Tiger Woods

"It takes art to play the ball on the ground and create shots. When the ball is plugging, it's pot-luck, everyone's going low."

- Tiger Woods

"Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it."

- Chet Atkins

"The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety."

- Deepak Chopra

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

- Albert Einstein

"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."

- Pablo Picasso

"I merely took the energy it takes to pour and wrote some blues."

- Duke Ellington

"I don't know what I'm doing. And if you don't know what to do, there's actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you're doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen."

- Philip Glass

"I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower."

- Christine and the Queens