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Creativity Quotations

Properly practiced, creativity can make one advertisement do the work of ten.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

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

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Once I drew like Raphael but it has taken me a lifetime to draw like a child.

 We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar, and surprising.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is ultimately to be at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord of himself.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Many people are inventive, sometimes cleverly so. But real creativity begins with the drive to work on and on and on.

The whole creative process is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!

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It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

Creative people have much more confidence in their imaginative leaps, their intuition.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

Everything is writable about if you have the ongoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Donít stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

Many people are inventive, sometimes cleverly so. But real creativity begins with the drive to work on and on and on.

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

But if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Creativity is simply the energy of making something where there was nothing before. We do this every day, in so many unmarked ways.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

When the spirit of childís play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

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

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.

You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

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

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Creativity is a gift. It doesnít come through if the air is cluttered.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

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