Thoughts of Creativity Quotes in English with Images
Creative Thought of the Day in English
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
- G.K. Chesterton
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten Creativity. Until then, one of the bes things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. - John W. Gardner |
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 |
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. - Norman Podhoretz |
Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers. - Ester Buchholz |
In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life. - T.C. Boyle |
A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world. If you want to be able to do great things, whether you’re a musician, or whether you’re an entrepreneur, or whether you’re an investor, you need free time and you need a free mind. - Naval Ravikant |
Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. - Rainer Maria Rilke Quotation |
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock |
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 |
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider |
Creativity increases when you have peace. - A Quotation From Aaron Aalto |
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. Victor Pinchuk |
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce |
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. -Stephen Nachmanovitch |
Routine kills creative thought. - Scarlett Thomas |
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift. - J. Tillman |
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert |
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. - Jack Kerouac |
If it doesn’t sell; it isn’t creative. - David Ogilvy |
Create with the heart; build with the mind. - Criss Jami |
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. - James Baldwin |
Observe Everything. - Frank Thomas |
Originality is the best form of rebellion. - Mike Sasso |
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. - Brené Brown |
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. - G.K. Chesterton * |
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso |
There is intelligence when you are not afraid. - Bruce Lee |
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. - Maya Angelou |
I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight. - Robin Green |
So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work. - Austin Kleon |
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams |
Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens. - Stella Terrill Mann |
Your brain is a factory, not a warehouse. - Thibaut |
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. - Stephen Nachmanovitch |
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. - Pablo Picasso |
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. - Mikhail Bakunin |
Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things. - Michelangelo |
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. - Arthur Koestler |
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. - Leo Tolstoy |
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. - John Stuart Mill |
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. - Steve Jobs |
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. - Claude Monet |
Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh |
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. - Auguste Rodin |
When we build, let us think that we build forever. - John Ruskin |
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. - Neil Gaiman |
Creativity is obscured by the conscious mind. - Naval Ravikant |
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. - Pablo Picasso |
We have the capacity for infinite creativity. - Jackie Gleason |
Good art inspires; Good design motivates. - Otl Aicher |
If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things. - Larry Page |
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James |
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. - Cecil B. Demille |
Frugality without creativity is deprivation. - Amy Dacyczyn |
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein |
So you see, imagination needs molding - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. - Brenda Ueland Download or Share |
Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently. - Eric A. Burns Download or Share |
The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity… Out of discord, harmony… And out of difficulty, opportunity. - Albert Einstein |
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. - Oscar Wilde |
The important thing for you is to be alert, to question, to find out, so that your own initiative may be awakened. - Bruce Lee |
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is wher work and play merge. - Stephen Nachmanovitch |
When you can do a common thing in an uncommon way; you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver |
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. - Masaru Ibuka |
To make something new in fashion, you have to stay in a little bit of mad place and do a revolution. - Alessandro Michele |
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde |
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan |
The public wants work which flatters its illusions. - Gustave Flaubert |
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 |
If you’re to create something powerful and important, you must at the very least be driven by an equally powerful inner force. - Ryan Holiday |
To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. - Steve Jobs |
The more time you spend being quiet and looking in, your intuition grows and you trust it more. - Rick Rubin |
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein |
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - E. E. Cummings |
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas Edison |
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois |
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 |
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