Quotes On Creativity

“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.” —Bruce Garrabrandt

“Everything you can imagine is real.” —Pablo Picasso

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.” —Steve Jobs

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” —Jack London

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” —George Bernard Shaw

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” —John Cleese

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” —Maya Angelou

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” —Edwin Land

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.”  —Albert Einstein

“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

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.” —Edward de Bono 

“Creativity is… seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.” —Michele Shea 

“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.” —Nolan Bushnell 

“The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.” —Abe Tannenbaum

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” —George Lois 

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso

“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

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it” – Salvador Dali

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people” – Leo Burnett

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club” – Jack London

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will” – George Bernard Shaw

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try” – Dr. Seuss

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” – Charles Mingus

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation” – Voltaire

“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas” – Donatella Versace

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things” – Ray Bradbury

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while” – Steve Jobs

“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without” – Cecil B. DeMille

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw

“Creativity is contagious, pass it on” – Albert Einstein

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”– Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.” – Bruce Garrabrandt

“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

 “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook

“The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.” – Pablo Picasso

“Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” – Edward de Bono

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula Leguin

“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.”

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

“Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” — William James

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”– Vincent van Gogh

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”
– Salvador Dali

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
– Leo Burnett

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
– Dr. Seuss

“Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.”
– Albert Einstein

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”
– Bruce Garrabrandt

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”
– John Cleese

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”- Scott Adams

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it’s easy to thwart.” Adam Grant

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