Creativity Quotes

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

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

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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.

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

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

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

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

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.