To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. @ -Osho
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun. @ -Mary Lou Cook
Create with the heart; build with the mind. @ -Criss Jami
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done. @ -Austin Kleon
We don't make mistakes. We just have happy accidents. @ -Bob Ross
Be anything but predictable.
You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you need to breathe, calm down, look around, and improvise. Creativity is the key of life. @ -Paulo Coelho
Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. @ -Austin Kleon
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. @ -Steve Jobs
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. @ -Pablo Picasso
Society tries to jam us into stereotypes and our souls rebel with authenticity.
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. @ -Karl Lagerfeld
If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. @ -Hilary Mantel
Pretend to be making something until you actually make something. @ -Austin Kleon
To be successful you must have tunnel vision. Tune out the distractions, and focus.
Everything you need already exists inside of you. Gratitude can draw it out.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. @ -Walt Disney
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. @ -Brenda Ueland
It's better to create something that others criticize than to create nothing and criticize others. @ -Ricky Gervais
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. @ -Claude Monet
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. @ -Oscar Wilde
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. @ -Maya Angelou
Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored — the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care. @ -Austin Kleon
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. @ -Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. @ -Albert Einstein
The idea of perfection is just that, an idea. In reality, there is no true perfection. So, stop seeking it.
Imagination… Is the elixir of life, the seed of greatness. @ -Melowpark College
I dream my painting and i paint my dream. @ -Vincent van Gogh
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. @ -William Plomer
Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart. @ -Mencius
The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity. Out of discord, harmony. And out of difficulty, opportunity. @ -Albert Einstein
Our best and most lasting work comes from when we take things slow. @ -Ryan Holiday
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. @ -Walt Disney
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. @ -Pablo Picasso
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. @ -Vincent van Gogh
Ideas come from everything. @ -Alfred Hitchcock
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. @ -Erich Fromm
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. @ -Julian Barnes
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle. @ -Criss Jami
Consistency, like scheduling, is not the optimal way to do creative work. Best creative work is often done when you are in the mood. It cannot be scheduled in advanced or rationed equally between working days. @ -The Ancient Sage
A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. @ -Nikola Tesla
I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own. @ -Nikola Tesla
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. @ -Twyla Tharp
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. @ -Ayn Rand
Your own reasons to make are reason enough. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. @ -Elizabeth Gilbert
Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before. Each time is a new journey with no maps. @ -Natalie Goldberg
Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by. @ -Austin Kleon
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. @ -Franz Kafka
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. @ -Martha Graham
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. @ -Criss Jami
Writing is the act of discovery. @ -Natalie Goldberg
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
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. @ -Pablo Picasso
Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. @ -Natalie Goldberg
Every artist was first an amateur. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. @ -David Ogilvy
You were born an original. Don't die a copy. @ -John Landis Mason
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. @ -Albert Einstein
The most talented, thought-provoking, game-changing people are never normal. @ -Richard Branson
You have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. @ -Osho
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it. @ -Lady Gaga
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. @ -George Bernard Shaw
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. @ -Oscar Wilde
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. @ -Andy Warhol
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. @ -Erich Fromm
Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known. @ -Carl Sagan
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. @ -Carl Jung
There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering. @ -Elon Musk
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity. @ -Deepak Chopra
All of us can create if we allow ourselves to. @ -Natalie Goldberg
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. @ -Peter F. Drucker
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate. @ -Julio Cortázar
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. @ -Toni Morrison
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. @ -Leo Burnett
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. @ -Osho
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. @ -Mikhail Bakunin
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. @ -Thomas Edison
The creative process involves many ups and downs. Don't be too hard on yourself when you're in a slump. Rest, reflect, take a deep breath, and get back to work.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. @ -Scott Adams
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. @ -Nikola Tesla
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
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else – that's how you'll get ahead. @ -Austin Kleon
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. @ -Henry David Thoreau
The world is not in your books and maps; it's out there. @ -Gandalf
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. @ -Leo Tolstoy
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. @ -Masaru Ibuka
Imagination rules the world. @ -Napoleon Bonaparte
Simplicity and complexity need each other. @ -John Maeda
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. @ -Oscar Wilde
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. @ -Albert Einstein
Art is communication of feelings. @ -Bruce Lee
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards. @ -Albert Einstein
Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming. @ -Alice Walker
Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses. @ -Lady Gaga
Replace fear with curiosity. @ -Steven Spielberg
I shut my eyes in order to see. @ -Paul Gauguin
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation. @ -Bruce Lee
The thing is to become a master and, in your old age, to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. @ -Ernest Hemingway
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. @ -Colson Whitehead
What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. @ -Harvey S. Firestone
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do. @ -Neil deGrasse Tyson
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. @ -Austin Kleon
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
Almost all creativity requires purposeful play. @ -Abraham Maslow
The more time you spend being quiet and looking in, your intuition grows and you trust it more. @ -Rick Rubin
An artist is an explorer. @ -Henri Matisse
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. @ -Steve Jobs
Don't wait until you know who you are to get started. @ -Austin Kleon
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. @ -Rene Magritte
Everything is interesting. Look closer.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. @ -Sophia Loren
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.  @ -M. C. Escher
The closer man gets to the unknown, the more inventive he becomes – the quicker he adopts new ways. @ -Buckminster Fuller
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. @ -Gustav Flaubert
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. @ -Dee Hock
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. @ -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. @ -Salvador Dalí
Creative thinking is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured. @ -Edward de Bono
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random. @ -Ken Robinson
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. @ -Neil Gaiman
One must not merely copy but try to convey the significance of what you see. @ -Bruce Lee
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you'll find out how big a prize you've won. @ -Twyla Tharp
Life begins where fear ends. @ -Osho
Creativity is obscured by the conscious mind. @ -Naval Ravikant
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. @ -Edith Södergran
Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else. @ -Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. @ -Georgia O'Keeffe
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. @ -Rumi
Go to see a new place, eat weird food, learn a new hobby, get your brain focused on something you have to work to comprehend.
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. @ -Linda Naiman
Good art inspires; Good design motivates. @ -Otl Aicher
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. @ -Albert Einstein
Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable. @ -Twyla Tharp
I am not strange. I am just not normal. @ -Salvador Dalí
To have a great idea, have a lot of them. @ -Thomas Edison
I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it. @ -Alicia Keys
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. @ -Victor Pinchuk
The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right doing. @ -Angeles Arrien
To be an artist is to believe in life. @ -Henry Moore
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. @ -Gilda Radner
The most dangerous idea is silencing people. @ -Naval Ravikant
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. @ -Arthur Koestler
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous. @ -Ralph Caplan
What sets you apart can feel like a burden, and it's not. A lot of the time, it's what makes you great. @ -Emma Stone
Fear leads to self-doubt which is the worst enemy of creativity. @ -David Ogilvy
Remember this when you're struggling for a big idea. You're much better off scratching for a small one. @ -Twyla Tharp
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. @ -Toni Morrison
Involve groups in the creative process and you inevitably end up with a pile of pleasing, socially-acceptable lies. @ -Naval Ravikant
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. @ -Jacob Bronowski
My life didn't please me, so I created my life. @ -Coco Chanel
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. @ -Nikola Tesla
Creativity is based on the belief that there's no particular virtue in doing things they way they've always been done. @ -Rudolph Flesch
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. @ -Pablo Picasso
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. @ -E. E. Cummings
Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have plans. @ -Mike Birbiglia
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. @ -Marina Abramović
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. @ -Auguste Rodin
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. @ -Rollo May
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible. @ -William S. Burroughs
If you can dream it, you can do it. @ -Walt Disney
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. @ -Beatrix Potter
What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!  @ -Larry Page
While ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished. @ -Jony Ive
Creativity is as important as literacy. @ -Ken Robinson
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. @ -William Faulkner
Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will. @ -James Stephenson
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. @ -Coco Chanel
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. @ -Eric Hoffer
Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers. @ -Ester Buchholz
Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity. @ -Mahershala Ali
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. @ -William James
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity involves not only years of conscious preparation and training but unconscious preparation as well. @ -Oliver Sacks
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it. @ -Twyla Tharp
The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. @ -Chuck Palahniuk
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it. @ -Salvador Dalí
It may be that our cosmic curiosity is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder. @ -Neil deGrasse Tyson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself; that, my friend, is very hard to do. @ -Bruce Lee
To cease to think creatively is to cease to live. @ -Benjamin Franklin
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. @ -Henry David Thoreau
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. @ -Frida Kahlo
The man who has no imagination has no wings. @ -Muhammad Ali
There's a way to do it better – find it. @ -Thomas Edison
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. @ -Vincent van Gogh
Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build. @ -Gene Luen Yang
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.  @ -Dr. Seuss
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. @ -Albert Einstein
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. @ -Twyla Tharp
The people who made Mac are sort of on the edge. @ -Steve Jobs
I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that. @ -Fan BingBing
The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. @ -Albert Einstein
If it doesn't sell; it isn't creative. @ -David Ogilvy
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. @ -Bill Moyers
One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new. @ -Harvey MacKay
Stop wasting time and do what you were created to do. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder. @ -Austin Kleon
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. @ -Albert Einstein
How to unlock creativity: slow down, study another field, get into nature, get out of office, music, sketch, cardio before/after, nibble on small ideas, throw stuff away, atomize the work, look for orthogonal inspiration, breathe, learn about circadian rhythm, paint. @ -Brian Norgard
A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world. If you want to be able to do great things, whether you're a musician, or whether you're an entrepreneur, or whether you're an investor, you need free time and you need a free mind. @ -Naval Ravikant
In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life.  @ -T. C. Boyle
Use your imagination to fill in the blanks. @ -Barbara Corcoran
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. @ -James Baldwin
The world needs more innovators and more creators. The world needs more of you!
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. @ -William Ward
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. @ -Ernest Hemingway
Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls. @ -Naomi Judd
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stressed; working hard for something we love is called passion. @ -Simon Sinek
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. @ -Dorothy Parker
I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.
Creativity is intelligence having fun. @ -Albert Einstein
It's only after you're bored that you're gonna have the great ideas. @ -Naval Ravikant
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. @ -Criss Jami
You don't take a photograph, you make it. @ -Ansel Adams
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. @ -Donatella Versace
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. @ -Oscar Wilde
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. @ -Brené Brown
If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things. @ -Larry Page
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. @ -Thomas Edison
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. @ -Sylvia Plath
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. @ -Steve Jobs
Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. @ -Rainer Maria Rilke
It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. @ -Larry Page
The value of achievement lies in the achieving. @ -Albert Einstein
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous. @ -Navjot Singh Sidhu
Chance favors the prepared mind. @ -Louis Pasteur
It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is. @ -Bruce Lee
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. @ -Jimi Hendrix
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. @ -Jean Dubuffet
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.  @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room. @ -Austin Kleon
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. @ -Roger Von Oech
Know where to find the information and how to use it. That's the secret of success. @ -Albert Einstein
Without freedom, there is no creation. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Have a healthy disregard for the impossible and actually build new solutions. @ -Larry Page
If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion. @ -Twyla Tharp
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. @ -Joan Miro
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. @ -Albert Einstein
It seems like the world is crumbling out there, but it is actually a really great time in your life to get a little crazy, follow your curiosity and be ambitious about it. @ -Larry Page
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. @ -Albert Einstein
So little of what could happen does happen. @ -Salvador Dalí
You are more creative when you don't need money.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. @ -William James
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. @ -Gustav Flaubert
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. @ -Oscar Wilde
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't. @ -Thomas A. Edison
Art is what you can get away with. @ -Andy Warhol
Zeal will do more than knowledge. @ -William Hazlitt
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. @ -Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. @ -Oscar Wilde
Great art picks up where nature ends. @ -Marc Chagall
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. @ -Helen Frankenthaler
In the end, creativity isn't just the things we choose to put in, it's the things we choose to leave out. @ -Austin Kleon
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. @ -George Washington Carver
Sensitivity is not possible if you are afraid of this, that, etc. @ -Bruce Lee
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. @ -John Waters
Originality is the best form of rebellion. @ -Mike Sasso
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. @ -Thomas Edison
He who would be a man must therefore be a nonconformist. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline. @ -Duke Ellington
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. @ -Ernest Becker
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. @ -Voltaire
Genius is only a great aptitude for patience. @ -George Louis Leclerc
There is intelligence when you are not afraid. @ -Bruce Lee
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. @ -Salvador Dalí
When we build, let us think that we build forever. @ -John Ruskin
In the movie of your life, you get to write the script.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. @ -Albert Einstein
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. @ -Kurt Vonnegut
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. @ -Oscar Wilde
Laughing can serve you in dark moments and even help you crawl your way back out. @ -Ryan Reynolds
I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in which you are. @ -Slavoj Žižek
Go wild, for a while.
When I am completely myself, entirely alone during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. @ -Mozart
Stay hungry. Stay foolish. @ -Steve Jobs
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. @ -Picasso
Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.  @ -J.K. Rowling
If you're to create something powerful and important, you must at the very least be driven by an equally powerful inner force. @ -Ryan Holiday
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. @ -John Stuart Mill
Imagination is the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not; it is the foundation of all invention and innovation.  @ -J.K. Rowling
Creating opportunities means looking where others are not. @ -Mark Cuban
Creativity is a continual surprise. @ -Ray Bradbury
Art is a line around your thoughts. @ -Gustav Klimt
You don't make art out of good intentions. @ -Gustav Flaubert
The public wants work which flatters its illusions. @ -Gustav Flaubert
It took me a long time to accept myself, people, and once I did, it was on and cracking. @ -Leslie Jones
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. @ -Rollo May
Creativity is not a competition.
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore. @ -Wavy Gravy
The important thing for you is to be alert, to question, to find out, so that your own initiative may be awakened. @ -Bruce Lee
Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more. @ -Loris Malaguzzi
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. @ -Pablo Picasso
The one without dreams is the one without wings. @ -Muhammad Ali
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. @ -Edgar Degas
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. @ -Julia Cameron
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. @ -Charles Brower
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. @ -Chuck Close
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. @ -John Steinbeck
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things. @ -Andy Warhol
Be yourself. Embrace your quirks. @ -Ed Sheeran
Even if the world gives up on you, you always have yourself. @ -Lady Gaga
Routine kills creative thought. @ -Scarlett Thomas
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. @ -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. @ -Mikhail Bulgakov
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. @ -John Updike
This is very important because I work constantly in the moment of sleep. All of my best ideas come through my dreams. @ -Salvador Dalí
The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist. @ -Ananda Coomaraswamy
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.  @ -G.K. Chesterton
Creativity takes courage. @ -Henri Matisse
Obsession and distance are interesting co-conspirators in the art of creativity. @ -Brian Norgard
The best art divides the audience. @ -Rick Rubin
Requirement to be an artist: purity of heart. @ -Bruce Lee
It is indeed difficult to convey simplicity. @ -Bruce Lee
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as a survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. @ -Anita Roddick
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me. @ -Salvador Dalí
To make something new in fashion, you have to stay in a little bit of mad place and do a revolution. @ -Alessandro Michele
When all think alike, then no one is thinking. @ -Walter Lippman
It's no accident that AHA and HAHA are spelled almost the same way. @ -Mitch Ditkoff
If your dream only includes you, it's too small. @ -Ava DuVernay
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart. @ -Natalie Goldberg
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? @ -Dr. Seuss
Life is short, art is long. @ -Hippocrates
You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm. @ -Larry Page
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. @ -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working. @ -Albert Einstein
Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. @ -Michelangelo
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss. @ -Banksy
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift. @ -J. Tillman
One of the only ways to get out a tight box is to invent your way out. @ -Jeff Bezos
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. @ -Ken Robinson
Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate. @ -Bruce Lee
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. @ -Oscar Wilde
We are gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make 'me-too' products. For us, it's always the next dream. @ -Steve Jobs
I feel adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. @ -Elizabeth Taylor
Creativity is an act of defiance. @ -Twyla Tharp
The power of imagination makes us infinite. @ -John Muir
I do not see the world at all; I invent it. @ -Franz Kafka
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny!'. @ -Isaac Asimov
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art. @ -Junot Diaz
The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. @ -George Inness
Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don't ask a question before you Google it. You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question. @ -Austin Kleon
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. @ -Jack Kerouac
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. @ -Edward Hopper
Good artists copy, great artists steal. @ -Pablo Picasso
Half of any creative work is observation.
Imagination is an opportunity to put your mind to work – for good. @ -Sam Horn
Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. @ -Karl Lagerfeld
Find something only you can say. @ -James Dickey
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity. @ -Robert M. Pirsig
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. @ -Arthur Koestler
Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it. @ -Tim Cook
Traveling; it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. @ -Ibn Battuta
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. @ -Charles Mingus
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. @ -Stella Adler
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity. @ -Joel Salatin
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams. @ -Salvador Dalí
Too much planning implies you've got it all under control. That's boring, unrealistic, and dangerous. @ -Twyla Tharp
Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority. @ -Bill Hewlett
I think that you've got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. @ -Thomas Keller
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Innovation is simply seeing and connecting new dots in new ways. It is doing the opposite of the always. @ -Sam Horn
Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. @ -Lovelle Drachman
Why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything. @ -Abraham Maslow
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for business people looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way. @ -Twyla Tharp
The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it. @ -Twyla Tharp
Think left and think right, and think low and think high; Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.  @ -Dr. Seuss
There's the whole world at your feet. @ -Mary Poppins
