Creativity Quotes

“Imagination rules the world.”
-Napoleon

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
-Pablo Picasso

“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.”
-William Inge

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.”
-Martha Graham

“Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is “to fit together” and we all do this every day. Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating – whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.”
-Corita Kent

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off—it’s with you all the time.”
– Alvin Ailey

“Just remember, when it comes to your life, you are not only the artist but the masterpiece, as well. ”
—Cleo Wade

“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
—Thomas Edison

“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.”
—Alan Alda

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.”
–Carl Sagan

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
—Leo Burnett

“Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.”
—Brené Brown

“The most powerful, efficient energy source in the world is your own mind.  Explore and discover that it can make creative fuel from anything.”
—Bruce Garrabrandt

“Throwing away ideas too soon is like opening a package of flower seeds and then throwing them away because they’re not pretty.”
-Arthur VanGundy, Ph.D.

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.”
-Sophia Loren

“Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.”
-Thomas Edison

“Every problem has a solution; it may sometimes just need another perspective.”
-Katherine Russell

“If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step… the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: What ELSE could we do?”
— Dale Dauten

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
—Erich Seligmann Fromm

“I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though… drenched with possibilities.”
—Valaida Fullwood

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

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
—Robert Bresson

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

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”
—Theodor Seuss Geisel

“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
—Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi