Creativity Quotes

If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional individuals or identified with brilliance. In ordinary life creativity means making something for the soul out of every experience.

Thomas Moore, Care Of The Soul

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Albert Einstein

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Albert Einstein

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Sting

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

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.

Robert Cecil DayLewis

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Bruce Lee

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

Charles Browder

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Stephen King

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Sholem Asch

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Man Ray

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

John Saxe

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

May Sarton