Quotes about creativity

"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it."

Albee, Edward on creativity
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"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

Aldiss, Brian on creativity
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"Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements."

Alfonso X on creativity   

"The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen."

Ally, Carl on creativity
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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."

Artaud, Antonin on creativity
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"The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity."

Asch, Sholem on creativity   

"All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him."

Auden, W. H. on creativity   

"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."

Bennett, Arnold on creativity   

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

Blake, William on creativity   

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

Bono, Edward De on creativity   

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

Bresson, Robert on creativity
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"The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups."

Browder, Charles on creativity   

"The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production."

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc on creativity   

"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."

Caesar, Julius on creativity
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"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."

Capra, Frank on creativity
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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

Cook, Mary Lou on creativity
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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil on creativity
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"The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

Dickens, Charles on creativity
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"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

Doctorow, E. L. on creativity
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"Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea."

Dorfsman, Lou on creativity
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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

Douglas, Norman on creativity   

"All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists."

Duchamp, Marcel on creativity   

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

Einstein, Albert on creativity
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"The legs are the wheels of creativity."

Einstein, Albert on creativity
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"That which builds is better than that which is built."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on creativity   

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

Freud, Anna on creativity
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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

Fromm, Erich on creativity
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"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."

Fromm, Erich on creativity   

"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on creativity   

"We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought."

George, Gilbert on creativity   

"Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are."

Goble, Frank on creativity
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"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on creativity
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"To create something you must be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on creativity
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"From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?"

Hemingway, Ernest on creativity   

"It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm."

Henle, Mary on creativity   

"Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?"

Horney, Karen on creativity   

"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity."

Houston, Jean on creativity   

"Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven."

I Ching on creativity   

"Genius is initiative on fire."

Jackson, George Holbrook on creativity   

"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on creativity
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