Quote: Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. Author: Brian Aldiss 1925-, British Science Fiction Writer
Quote: Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. Author: Alfonso X 1221-1284, Spanish King of Le=n and Castile
Quote: The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. Author: Carl Ally
Quote: No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. Author: Antonin Artaud 1896-1948, French Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist
Quote: The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. Author: Sholem Asch 1880-1957, Polish-born American Writer
Quote: All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him. Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Quote: Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. Author: Arnold Bennett 1867-1931, British Novelist
Quote: I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. Author: Edward De Bono 1933-, British Writer On Thinking Process
Quote: Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. Author: Robert Bresson 1907-, French Film Director
Quote: The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. Author: Charles Browder
Quote: The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production. Author: Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon 1707-1788, French Naturalist
Quote: It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. Author: Julius Caesar 101-44 BC, Roman Emperor
Quote: A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Author: Frank Capra 1897-1991, Italian Film Director
Quote: Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. Author: Mary Lou Cook
Quote: First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. Author: Robert Cecil Day-Lewis 1904-1972, Irish Poet
Quote: The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. Author: E. L. Doctorow 1931-, American Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Lou Dorfsman
Quote: There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. Author: Norman Douglas 1868-1952, British Author
Quote: All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists. Author: Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968, French Artist
Quote: The legs are the wheels of creativity. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: That which builds is better than that which is built. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Author: Anna Freud
Quote: Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Author: Erich Fromm 1900-1980, American Psychologist
Quote: Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. Author: Erich Fromm 1900-1980, American Psychologist
Quote: We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Author: Jose Ortega Y Gasset 1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher
Quote: We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. Author: Gilbert George 1943-, Italian-born British Artist
Quote: Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are. Author: Frank Goble
Quote: A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: To create something you must be something. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows? Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. Author: Mary Henle
Quote: Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement? Author: Karen Horney 1885-1952, American Psychiatrist
Quote: Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. Author: Jean Houston
Quote: Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven. Author: I Ching 12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes
Quote: Genius is initiative on fire. Author: George Holbrook Jackson 1874-1948, British Essayist, Literary Historian,
Quote: A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. Author: Gerald G. Jampolsky American Psychiatrist, Lecturer, Author
Quote: Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing. Author: John Kellogg
Quote: Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. Author: Florence King 1936-, American Author, Critic
Quote: Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. Author: Paul Klee 1879-1940, Swiss Artist
Quote: 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. Author: George Kneller
Quote: Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Author: Arthur Koestler 1905-1983, Hungarian Born British Writer
Quote: True creativity often starts where language ends. Author: Arthur Koestler 1905-1983, Hungarian Born British Writer
Quote: Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday. Author: Ray Kroc 1902-1984, American businessman, Founder of McDonalds
Quote: Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. Author: Edwin H. Land 1909-1991, American Scientist, Inventor of the Polaroid Camera & Co.
Quote: The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Author: Edwin H. Land 1909-1991, American Scientist, Inventor of the Polaroid Camera & Co.
Quote: Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. Author: Bruce Lee 1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist
Quote: Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. Author: George Lois
Quote: It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. Author: Agnes De Mille 1905-1993, American Dancer, Choreographer, Writer
Quote: Creation is a drug I can't do without. Author: Cecil B. De Mille 1881-1959, American Film Producer and Director
Quote: All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven. Author: Philipus A. Paracelsus German Physician and Chemist
Quote: Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing. Author: Persius 34-62 AD, Satirical Poet
Quote: I do not seek, I find. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: The chief enemy of creativity is good taste. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: 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. Author: Norman Podhoretz
Quote: I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. Author: Man Ray 1890-1976, American Photographer
Quote: Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of. Author: Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926, German Poet
Quote: Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action. Author: Harold Rosenberg 1906-1978, American Art Critic, Author
Quote: When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. Author: Margaret Sackville 1881-1963, British Poet
Quote: One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. Author: Carl Sandburg 1878-1967, American Poet
Quote: The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death. Author: May Sarton 1912-, American Poet, Novelist
Quote: It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. Author: John Saxe
Quote: The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough. Author: Denise Shekerjian
Quote: 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. Author: Arianna Stassinopoulos 1950-, Greek Author
Quote: I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil. Author: Sting 1951-, British-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Actor
Quote: Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form. Author: Thomas Troward
Quote: Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. Author: Paul Valery 1871-1945, French Poet, Essayist
Quote: The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity. Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Quote: Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. Author: Robert Wieder
Quote: It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses. Author: Tennessee Williams 1914-1983, American Dramatist
Quote: Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught. Author: William Butler Yeats 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.