Creativity Quotes

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"Creativity takes courage."

- Henri Matisse

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity."

- Ray Bradbury

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

- Albert Einstein

"Every artist was first an amateur."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought."

- Unknown

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."

- Pablo Picasso

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."

- William Plomer

"Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones."

- Bruce Garrabrandt

"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation."

- Voltaire

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

- Edwin Land

"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on."

- Albert Einstein

"Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."

- Leo Burnett

"The creative adult is the child who survived."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns to look at things in a different way."

- Edward de Bono

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Creativity is nothing but a mind set free."

- Torrie T. Asai

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality."

- Arthur Koestler

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

- Erich Fromm

"You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

"Creativity is the soul of innovation."

- Unknown

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change."

- Brené Brown

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure."

- Brené Brown

"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."

- Bill Moyers

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom."

- John F. Kennedy

"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

- Charles Horton Cooley

"Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye."

- Dorothy Parker

"Without change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement."

- William Pollard

"Creativity is discontent translated into arts."

- Eric Hoffer

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

- Albert Einstein

"The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere."

- Terence McKenna

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence."

- Osho

"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without."

- Cecil B. DeMille