42 Famous Quotes About Creativity
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Here are 42 famous quotes about creativity. Read what artists, writers, scientists, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and psychologists have said about the challenges and rewards of creativity.
Famous Quotes About Creativity
‘Creativity takes courage.’
‘The creative adult is the child who survived.’
‘Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.’
‘The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.’
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
‘Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.’
‘Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.’
‘Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.’
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Famous Quotes About Creativity
‘You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.’
‘Creativity is intelligence having fun.’
‘To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.’
‘Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.’
‘Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.’
‘Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.’
— Yo-Yo Ma
‘Without freedom, there is no creation.’
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Famous Quotes About Creativity
‘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.’
‘Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.’
‘To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.’
‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.’
‘What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.’
― Deepak Chopra, Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
‘Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.’
‘A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.’
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Famous Quotes About Creativity
‘We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.’
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
‘When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.’
‘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.’
‘The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.’
‘You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.’
‘Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.’
“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
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Famous Quotes About Creativity
‘Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.’
‘The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.’
‘Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.’
‘Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.’
‘Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.’
‘It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.’
‘There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.’
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Famous Quotes About Creativity
‘Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.’
‘Negativity is the enemy of creativity.’
‘Creativity is an energy. It’s a precious energy, and it’s something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they’re a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can’t be taken for granted.’
‘Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.’
‘Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.’
‘Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.’
‘Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.’
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