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Quotes about Creativity


Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

R. I. Fitzhenry

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 best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

John W. Gardner

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

Scott Adams

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Nadine Gordimer

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

R. I. Fitzhenry

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Sholem Asch

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

Mary Lou Cook

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Brian Aldiss

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

Howard Aiken

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

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

Edward De Bono

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

George Lois

True creativity quite simply starts with balancing your emotions and activating the power of the heart. Through practicing emotional management from the heart, you tap into the highest form of creativity possible-recreating your perceptions of reality. -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

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

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

James D. Finley

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Frank Capra

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".

Pauline Kael

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

R. I. Fitzhenry

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true—but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.

Jonathan Schattke

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Chuck Jones

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

Arianna Stassinopoulos

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

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