Creativity Quotes

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin H. Land

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Edwin H. Land

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

Gilbert George

I do not seek, I find.

Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Pablo Picasso

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

Aldous Huxley

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

Persius

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

Henry Miller

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

Henry Miller

I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

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The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again.

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One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc.

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

Anna Freud

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

John Updike

After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.

H P (Henry Peach) Robinson, The

There is lots of ways to be as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of the humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.

Steve Jobs

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

Edward de Bono

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

William Butler Yeats

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Stephen King

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

Edward Albee