These creativity quotes can help you to stay motivated and inspired. Hopefully, they will encourage you to be creative in your own pursuits!
Unleash your creative power
The creative process is often seen as mysterious, and people who are good at it are often thought to be possessed of some sort of magical talent. But the truth is that creativity is something that can be learned and improved with practice.
Of course, that’s great in theory. What do you do when you’re feeling stuck and need a little inspiration? That’s where these creativity quotes come in.
Gathered from some of the most creative minds in history, they’ll help jumpstart your own process and get those creative juices flowing again.
Inspiring Quotes About Creativity
Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
– Nnamdi Azikiwe
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
– Ray Bradbury
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out.
– David Duchovny
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
– Bo Bennett
Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
– Steve Jobs
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
– Edwin Land
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
– Gail Sheehy
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life.
– Sophia Loren
If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
– Jimmy Buffett
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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
– Cecil B. DeMille
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
– Albert Einstein
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity.
– Ross Perot
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
– Albert Einstein
Creativity takes courage.
– Henri Matisse
Best Quotes On Creativity
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
– Steve Jobs
Creativity is just connecting things.
– Steve Jobs
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
– Albert Einstein
The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
– Wentworth Miller
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
– Robert Iger
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
– Albert Einstein
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
– Theodore Levitt
Creativity is the natural order of life.
– Julia Cameron
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.
– Steve Jobs
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
– Albert Einstein
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
– Ben Okri
To be creative means to be in love with life.
– Osho
The most important thing is a person. A person who incites and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.
– Steve Jobs
Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.
– Steve Jobs
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power.
– Julia Margaret Cameron
Creativity Quotes To Inspire You
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
– Bryant H. McGill
Creative living is where Big Magic will always abide.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
– Albert Einstein
This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
– Edward de Bono
Every day is an opportunity to be creative.
– Innerspace
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
– Eric Hoffer
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
– Erich Fromm
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.
Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
– Albert Einstein
Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.
– Demi Lovato
It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
– Steve Jobs
To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about.
– Steve Jobs
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
– Donatella Versace
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
– Steve Jobs
Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
– Charles Mingus
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
– Steve Jobs
Quotes About Being Creative
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
– Steve Jobs
Invest time in yourself to have great experiences that are going to enrich you.
– Steve Jobs
The way to ratchet up our species is to get better things to more people – products with spirit and creativity.
– Steve Jobs
If today were the last of your life, would you do what you were going to do today?
– Steve Jobs
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
– Edward de Bono
The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.
– Julia Cameron
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
– Dee Hock
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
– Scott Adams
I’ve found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.
– Julian Lennon
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
– Victor Hugo
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
– Yoko Ono
I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing.
– Scott Adams
Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
– Steve Jobs
We have the capacity for infinite creativity.
– Jackie Gleason
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
– Bill Moyers
Quotes and Thoughts on Creativity
A creative life is an amplified life.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
– T. S. Eliot
I don’t know what I think until I write about it.
– Joan Didion
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
– Steve Jobs
Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
– Earl Nightingale
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
– Albert Einstein
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
– Steve Jobs
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
– John Updike
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
– James Russell Lowell
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
– Albert Einstein
Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.
– Pablo Picasso
It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.
– Steve Jobs
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
– Albert Einstein
The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity.
– Dan Stevens
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
– Pablo Picasso
Quotes on Being Creative
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing.
– Edward de Bono
It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
– Mary Garden
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.
– Herman Melville
Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
– Daisaku Ikeda
Creativity is breaking out of established patterns to look at things in a different way.
– Edward de Bono
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
– Sylvia Plath
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
– Steve Jobs
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
– Albert Einstein
Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
– Jean Dubuffet
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
– Brene Brown
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful … that’s what matters to me.
– Steve Jobs
It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
– Steve Jobs
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
– Edward de Bono
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom.
– Greg Anderson
Cretivity is just connecting things.
– Steve Jobs
Without freedom, there is no creation.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
Creativity Words
The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity.
– Abe Tannenbaum
Can’t kills creativity!
– Camille Paglia
Creativity can solve almost any problem.
– George Lois
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
– Edwin Land
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
– Masaru Ibuka
I want to put a ding in the universe.
– Steve Jobs
People have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.
– Paul Ryan
Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
– William Shatner
I go wherever my creativity takes me.
– Lil Wayne
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
– Peter F. Drucker
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
– Albert Einstein
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
– Mason Cooley
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.
– Albert Einstein
Quotes By Creative People
Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones. — Bruce Garrabrandt
Creativity can solve almost any problem . The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. — George Lois
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings. -Marianne Williamson
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. — Deepak Chopra
Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way. — Edward de Bono
Routine kills creative thought. – Scarlett Thomas
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