Creativity Quotes

"What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?"

- Toni Morrison

"I can resist everything except temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"Imperfections are beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Cheap little rhymes, a cheap little tune, are sometimes as dangerous as a sliver of the moon."

- Langston Hughes

"A word after a word after a word is power."

- Margaret Atwood

"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Both reading and writing are experiences – lifelong – in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination."

- Eudora Welty

"Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work."

- Khaled Hosseini

"It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world."

- Amy Poehler

"birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty."

- Christopher Largen

"All natural birth has a purpose and a plan; who would think of tearing open the chrysalis as the butterfly is emerging? Who would break the shell to pull the chick out?"

- Marie Mongon

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."

- Bruce Lee

"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."

- Bruce Lee

"When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style."

- Bruce Lee

"My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line."

- Lorde

"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 truly have defeated age."

- Sophia Loren

"Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'Tales Of The Jazz Age'

"The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time."

- Mark Twain

"If he laid on the Irish any thicker, she’d be drowning in shamrocks."

- Nalini Singh

"I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared."

- Allyson Felix

"A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding."

- Steve Prefontaine

"Do whatever you do intensely."

- Robert Henri

"90% of every art form is garbage – dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that’s good, suck it up, and drive on."

- Patton Oswalt

"A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights."

- Brian Tracy

"But when you’re beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things."

- Jerry Harrison

"I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I’ve learned to trust my own instincts and I’ve also learned to take risks."

- Sue Grafton

"To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry."

"Youth is the canvas upon which the masterpiece of tomorrow is painted."

"Youthful enthusiasm is the spark that ignites innovation."