Are you stuck in a rut? These quotes on creativity will motivate you to be more creative and imaginative in no time.
As a species, human ingenuity is what propels us forward.
From the wheel to the microprocessor, our unique capacity to harness our thoughts and ideas has resulted in some of the world’s greatest innovations.
To that end, here are some of the best creativity quotes to help you spark your imagination and inventiveness when you’re working on a project.
170+ ExellentQuotes about Creativity
Creativity takes courage.___Henri Matisse
To be creative means to be in love with life.__Osho
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. – Osho
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.___Eric Hoffer
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.___Maya Angelou
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.___Edward de Bono
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.___Jonathan Schattke
There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.___Ray Bradbury
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.___Yoko Ono
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. – Earl Nightingale
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.___Sylvia Plath
Creativity doesn’t need to be a Herculean event. But it does need consistent fostering.___Carla Johnson
Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.___William Shatner
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.___Albert Einstein
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.___Mason Cooley
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. – Dorothy Parker
Thinking is the enemy of creativity.___Ray Bradbury
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.____Donatella Versace
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.___Herman Melville
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, therewould be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.___Edward de Bono
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 the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it’s not random.___Ken Robinson
Absurdity and anti-absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.___Karl Lagerfeld
Creativity is just connecting things.___Steve Jobs
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
Creativity is obscured by the conscious mind. – Naval Ravikant
Art, freedom, and creativity will change society faster than politics.___Victor Pinchuk
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.__Edward de Bono
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.___Edward de Bono
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions – if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.___Robert M. Hayes
It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others.___George Kneller
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.___Peter F. Drucker
Replace fear with curiosity. – Stephen Spielberg
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions___Leonardo Da Vinci
When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.___Tony Bennett
Creative works may indeed be kind of like property, but it’s property that we’re all building on.__Kirby Ferguson
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions – if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.___Robert M. Hayes
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.___Anthony Jay
Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do.___Neil Degrasse Tyson
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.__Sir Joshua Reynolds
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.___Voltaire
Create with the heart; build with the mind.___Criss Jami
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
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.
Find something only you can say. – James Dickey
An idea is like a virus. Resilient.____Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.____Victor Hugo
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.___Arthur Koestler
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.___Oscar Wilde
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.___Dee Hock
To cease to think creatively is to cease to live. – Benjamin Franklin
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
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.___Carl Jung
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.___Carl Jung
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.___Oscar Wilde
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.___Nikos Kazantzakis
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.___Bertrand Russell
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
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.___Brené Brown
Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. – Steve Jobs
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.___Albert Einstein
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.____Dr. Seuss
The important thing for you is to be alert, to question, to find out, so that your own initiative may be awakened.___Bruce Lee
Creative thinking is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.___Edward de Bono
If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative. – David Ogilvy
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.___Carl Sagan
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.___Scott Adams
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.___Theodore Levitt
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.___Julia Cameron
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.___Mary Shelly
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.___Joel Salatin
Creative Genius Quotes
Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.___Thomas Troward
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.___Benjamin Franklin
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.__Bertrand Russell
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.― Rumi
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.― Kurt Vonnegut
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.― Henry Thomas Buckle
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most talented, thought-provoking, game-changing people are never normal.___Sir Richard Branson
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.― Albert Einstein
Creativity takes courage. ― Henri Matisse
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.― Pablo Picasso
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.― Albert Einstein
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.___William James
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.____Friedrich Nietzsche
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.___Debbie Ford
I shut my eyes in order to see. – Paul Gaugin
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.__Edith Södergran
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.___Charles Caleb Colton
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.___Arthur Koestler
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
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.― Sylvia Plath
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.― Oscar Wilde
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
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.___Jean Dubuffet
I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.___Marcus Tullius Cicero
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.___Nikos Kazantzakis
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.____Julia Cameron
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
Doors are for people with no imagination.― Derek Landy
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.___Salvador Dali
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.____Arthur Erickson
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.___Alan Alda
There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.___Marta Graham
Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.___Elizabeth Gilbert
An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.___Wayne W. Dyer
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.― Pablo Picasso
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.– Benjamin Franklin___Fun Creativity Quotes
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.___Abraham Maslow
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.___Ernest Becker
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.___Beatrix Potter
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. – Thomas Edison
Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.___Austin Cleon
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.___Martin Luther King, Jr.
Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.___Steve Wozniak
The Stone Age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.___Unknown
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.___Albert Einstein
You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.___Jack London
It’s no accident that AHA and HAHA are spelled almost the same way.___Mitch Ditkoff
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.___G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery
Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.___Bruce Garrabrandt
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.___Julia Cameron
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out.___David Duchovny
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.___Edward de Bono
Without freedom, there is no creation.___Jiddu Krishnamurti
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.___Pablo Picasso
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.___Virginia Wolfe
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.____Marily Monnroe
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity is seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.___Michele Shea
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.___Joan Miró
Written reports stifle creativity.___H. Ross Perot
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.___Bryant H. McGill
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. – Bill Moyers
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.___Gail Sheehy
Creativity is based on the belief that there’s no particular virtue in doing things they way they’ve always been done.___Rudolph Flesch
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.____Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.___Mary Lou Cook
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.____John Maynard Keynes
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.___George Lois
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. – Edwin Land
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.___Neil Gaiman
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
Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach – how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.___Osho
Creative People
Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.___Alan Cohen
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.___Criss Jami
Some people use things; they destroy. You’re a creator, a builder.___Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.____Leo Burnett
Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.____Alan Cohen
Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.___Nnamdi Azikiwe
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.___Rita Mae Brown
In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail. – Julie Walters
Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.___Albert Einstein
When anybody pays you to be creative, you’re very lucky.___Donald Glover
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.___Ayn Rand
All creative people want to do the unexpected. – Hedy Lamarr
When you can do a common thing in an uncommon way; you will command the attention of the world.___George Washington Carver
Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.____Tim Cook
People have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.___Paul Ryan
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.___Carl Ally
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.___John Cleese
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
One of my early mentors, poet David Wagoner, who divides the creative process into three phases – madman, poet and critic – once told me that you need to find your own magic to stay in the world of creative play.___Sonia Gernes
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.____Paulo Coelho
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.___Gerald G. Jampolsky
Every day is an opportunity to be creative – the canvas is your mind, the brushes and colors are your thoughts and feelings, the panorama is your story, the complete picture is a work of art called, ‘my life’. Be careful what you put on the canvas of your mind today – it matters.___Innerspace
Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.___Frank Goble
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.___Jean Piaget
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.___Charles Mingus
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.___Abe Tannenbaum
Innovation and Creative Ideas
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.___John F. Kennedy
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.___Edward de Bono