53 Inspiring Creativity Quotes To Awaken Your Imagination

1. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” ~Erich Fromm

2. “Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.” ~ Julia Cameron

3. “The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.” ― Deepak Chopra

4. “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas” – Donatella Versace

5. “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” ― William Plomer

6. “The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” ― Henry David Thoreau

7. “Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.” ― Ed Mc Cabe

8. “Creativity comes from trust. trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” ― Rita Mae Brown

9. “Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” ― Edward de Bono

10. “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”– John Cleese

11. ““Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso

12. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” ― Albert Einstein

13. “Creative isn’t the way I think, it’s the way I like to live.” ― Paul Sandip

14. “I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.” ― Gilda Radner

15. “Almost all creativity requires purposeful play.” ― Abraham Maslow

16. “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club” – Jack London

17. “I’m experimental by nature… always exploring my creativity. – Christina Aguilera

18. “Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

19. “The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.” ― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

20. “The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.” ― Pablo Picasso

21. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso

22. “The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.” ― Bob Iger

23. “Creativity is breaking out of established patterns to look at things in a different way.” ~Edward de Bono

24. “You don’t have to be ‘a creative’ to be creative.” –Droby Ben-Menachem

25. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou

26. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” ― Steve Jobs

27. “The way to ratchet up our species is to get better things to more people – products with spirit and creativity.” ― Steve Jobs

28. “Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” ~Charles Mingus

29. “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” ― Mary Lou Cook

30. “Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” ― Albert Einstein

31. “Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.” ― Debbie Ford

32. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

33. “Creativity is nothing but the way to solve new problems.” ― Diana Santos

34. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” ― Steve Jobs

35. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”– Vincent van Gogh

36. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ― Albert Einstein

37. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”– Henry David Thoreau

38. “Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.” ― Masaru Ibuka

39. “Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert

40. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou

41. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ― Steve Jobs

42. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ― Albert Einstein

43. “Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” ― Dorothy Parker

44. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” ― Brené Brown

45. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ― Albert Einstein

46. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” ~Albert Einstein

47. “The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.” ― Ananda Coomaraswamy

48. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” –Abraham Lincoln

49. “Creativity requires input, and that’s what research is. You’re gathering material with which to build.” ― Gene Luen Yang

50. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” ― Albert Einstein

51. ” Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” ― Martin Luther King

52. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ― Albert Einstein

53. “Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.” ― Bruce Garrabrandt

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