Creativity Quotes
83 hand-picked lines on creativity
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
— Alan Kay →
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
— Milton Berle →
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
— Albert Einstein →
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson →
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
— Maya Angelou →
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci →
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein →
“Creativity is connecting things.”
— Steve Jobs →
“The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.”
— Sylvia Plath →
“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin →
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
— William Plomer →
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
— Brené Brown →
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
— Leo Burnett →
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
— Albert Einstein →
“Good artists copy; great artists steal.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
— Oscar Wilde →
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
— Erich Fromm →
“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 not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”
— James Russell Lowell →
“The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately.”
— Abe Tannenbaum →
“There are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something.”
— Thomas A. Edison →
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
— Voltaire →
“Around here we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors.”
— Walt Disney →
“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 →
“To be creative means to be in love with life.”
— Osho →
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
— Leonardo da Vinci →
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“Creativity takes courage.”
— Henri Matisse →
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”
— Neil Gaiman →
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf →
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
— Robert Bresson →
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
— Brené Brown →
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
— Carl Sagan →
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy →
“You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?”
— George Bernard Shaw →
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Peter Drucker →
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
— Kurt Vonnegut →
“Clean up your room, find your purpose in life.”
— Jordan Peterson →
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
— Albert Einstein →
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
— Scott Adams →
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
— John Lennon →
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
— Lewis Carroll →
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
— Eric Hoffer →
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
— Stephen R. Covey →
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
— Jack London →
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
— Edwin Land →
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity — not a threat.”
— Steve Jobs →
“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement.”
— William Pollard →
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”
— George Kneller →
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
— Jamie Paolinetti →
“Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
— Edward de Bono →
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, you're more willing to take risks.”
— Yo-Yo Ma →
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
— Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi →
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
— Thomas Merton →
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
— George Bernard Shaw →
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right.”
— Steve Jobs →
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”
— Jessica Hische →
“An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.”
— William Bernbach →
“Normal is not something to aspire to; it's something to get away from.”
— Jodie Foster →
“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.”
— Edward de Bono →
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.”
— Dee Hock →
“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
— Bob Ross →
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
— Linus Pauling →
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
— Jean-Luc Godard →
“The painter tries to show you what he sees; the poet tries to show you what he feels.”
— James Huneker →
“Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.”
— Edwin Land →
“You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?”
— George Bernard Shaw →
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.”
— Kurt Vonnegut →
“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”
— Stephen Nachmanovitch →
“Creativity is the power to act.”
— Ai Weiwei →
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight.”
— e.e. cummings →
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who transform a yellow spot into sun.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”
— Robin Williams →
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
— Pablo Picasso →
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
— Margaret Atwood →
“Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.”
— Vincent van Gogh →