Quotes about creativity

I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Creativity'.

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. (Albert Einstein)
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. (Carl Sagan)
Change cannot be avoided... change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity. (Felice Jones)
If you feel the need to create something, create something today. (Unknown)
Intuition is not contrary to reason, but outside the province of reason. (Carl Jung)
Mastery is not perfection, it is journey, and the true master must be willing to try and fail and try again. (George Leonard)
Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it. (Alan Cohen)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
To see what he means by this, read Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech at Stanford (June 2005) - a moving and inspirational message from one of my heroes. Also you can watch the video of Steve giving his speech at Stanford. (Unknown)
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical. (Unknown)
Money doesn't bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money. (Sam Rosen)
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. (Ralph Marston)
Vision without execution is hallucination. (Thomas Edison)
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. (Louise Hay)
Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. (Japanese proverb)
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. (Hyman G. Rickover) [1900-1986]
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that remains is a compromise. (Robert Fritz)
There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you. (Peter Shepherd)
Humans cannot create matter. We can, however, create value. Creating value is in fact, our very humanity. When we praise people for their strength of character we are actually acknowledging their ability to create value. (Unknown)
Our life starts as a blank canvas and our choices and decisions are the colors that determine and enables us to paint our very own masterpiece. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. (Abraham H. Maslow)
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. (Steve Jobs)
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. (Paul McCartney)
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. (Chinese Proverb)
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. (John Paul Getty)
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)
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. (Isaac Newton)
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. (Brendan Francis)
Creativity is a marrying of our values, which determine the field of our endeavor, with our intentions, which draw to us the people, resources and finance. Creative genius values love and service and intends whatever is most urgently required. (Wallace Huey)
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Different is not necessarily better but better is always different. (Unknown)
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. (M. Scott Peck)
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. (George Bernard Shaw)
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. (Jacob Bronowski)
Some people say that dreaming gets you nowhere in life. But I say you can't get anywhere in life without dreaming. (Rose Zadra)
You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David that you are sculpting is you. (Joe Vitale)
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand. (Alan Cohen)
You know, we don't grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved... I mean, we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge. (Steve Jobs)
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open. (Unknown)
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. (Ronald E. Osborn)
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. (Scott Adams)
If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living. (Marion Woodman)
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there is a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours. (Noam Chomsky)
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory. (Osho)
Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life's forthcoming attractions. (Albert Einstein)
A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world. (Oscar Wilde)
Live out of your imagination, not your history. (Stephen Covey)
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. (Susanne K. Langer)
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. (Alan Kay)
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. (William Arthur Ward) [writer]
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. (Henri Poincare)
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. (Theodore Rubin)
There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots. (Warren Buffett)
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. (Albert Einstein)
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation. (Unknown)
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. (Copernicus)
If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. (Henry Ford)
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. (Charles Dickens)
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do we ever find them. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)
No great artists ever sees things as they really are. If he did then he would cease to be an artist. (Oscar Wilde)
Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in. (Willis Harman)
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher)
If you're not living on the edge... you're taking up too much room. (African Proverb)
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. (Ralph Gerard)
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. (Alexander Graham Bell)
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is. (Steve Jobs)
If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (Unknown)
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. (Horace) [Roman poet]
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. (Albert Einstein)
The impossible is often the untried. (Jim Goodwin)
To assume is to be deceived. (Yiddish proverb)
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. (Anthony J. D'Angelo)
Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness. (Alan Cohen)
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. (Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein)
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. (Unknown)
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material. (Dorothy M. Richardson)
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. (Pantanjali)
When I take on a new problem, I'm not interested in how it's been done before. I only want to know, of all the constraints people tend to assume, which ones are actually fundamental and which ones are just habit. (Jeff Bonwick) [Sun Microsystems]
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have run out. (Chinese proverb)
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. (Minor White)
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
Use what talent you possess. The woods would be silent if no birds sang except those who sang best. (Henry Van Dyke)
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. (Abraham H. Maslow)
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift; the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. (Albert Einstein)
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question. (Pierre Abela)
Comfort is found among those who agree with you. Growth among those who don't. (Unknown)
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. (William James)
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. (Cecil Beaton)
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith. (Margaret Shepherd)
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless. (Mary Kay Ash)
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic. (Werner Ehrhart)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust (Marcel Proust)
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. (G. W. F. Hegel)
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. (Linus Pauling)
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything. (Jean-Louis Etienne)
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine. (Arthur Eddington)
You get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again. (Steve Jobs)
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. (Mary Lou Cook)
True genius obeys no protocol. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. (Cyril Connolly)
Our body, like a camera, is similar in the fact that it allows our eyes to act as the lens and shutter, that snaps the subject that our mind instantly conceptualizes into an image, (like a roll of film) that our brain is later left to develop. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
The man who has no imagination has no wings. (Mohammad Ali) [boxer]
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action. (Unknown)
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. (John F. Kennedy)
To create an original work you must become a seer with eyes of spirit, that penetrate an invisible world and see the unformed future, which is the potential birthing place of an innovative product, service, invention or artistic achievement. Then you need to go into labour. (Wallace Huey)
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. (Wayne Gretzky)
If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth. (Unknown)
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. (Adele Brookman)
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. (Henry J. Kaiser)
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakes. (Carl Gustav Jung)
Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido. (Peter Shepherd)
You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus. (Mark Twain)
The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. (Vincent Van Gogh)
Creativity gives rise to the limited out of the unlimited, to sanity out of madness, to the valuable out of the priceless, to abundance out of nothingness, to the original out of the familiar and to hope out of despair. (Wallace Huey)
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. (Belva Davis)
Without death there would be very little progress. (Steve Jobs)
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment. (Unknown)
The only true limitation in life is one's own lack of imagination. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. (John Steinbeck)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. (Joseph Chilton Pearce)
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. (Albert Einstein)

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