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. 

- Aaron Aalto

Creativity increases when you have peace.

- A Quotation From Aaron Aalto

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

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 Quotes

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 Quotes

Creative work is play.  It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

-Stephen Nachmanovitch

Routine kills creative thought. 

- Scarlett Thomas

Routine kills creative thought.

- Scarlett Thomas

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift. 

- J. Tillman

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

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

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

If it doesn’t sell; it isn’t creative.

- David Ogilvy

Create with the heart; build with the mind. 

- Criss Jami

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

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

- James Baldwin

Observe Everything.
Communicate Well.
Draw, Draw, Draw.

- Frank Thomas Quotes

Observe Everything.
Communicate Well.
Draw, Draw, Draw.

- Frank Thomas

Originality is the best form of rebellion. 

- Mike Sasso

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

- Mike Sasso

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. 

- Brené Brown

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

So you see, imagination needs molding - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

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Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently.

- Creativity Quotes by Eric A. Burns

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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