Quotations on Creativity

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Albert Einstein, scientist

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

Maya Angelou, writer

"Creative Power is mightier than its possessor."

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It is self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't 'try' to do things. You simply MUST do things."

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."

Carl Jung, Analytical Psychologist

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It is self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't 'try' to do things. You simply MUST do things."

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."

Salvador Dali, artist

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It is self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't 'try' to do things. You simply MUST do things."

Ray Bradbury, writer

"The writer must wade into the sea. But only up to the navel."

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

"You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say 'WHY NOT?'

Gustave Flaubert, writer

"You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say 'WHY NOT?'

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

"You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say 'WHY NOT?'

George Bernard Shaw, writer and dramatist

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer

"If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room."

When I am...completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep... my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not, nor can I force them."

Austin Kleon, author

When I am...completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep... my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not, nor can I force them."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

When I am...completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep... my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not, nor can I force them."

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer

"I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic."

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

"I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic."

Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer

"The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt."

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

"I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic."

Sylvia Plath, novelist

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

Coco Chanel, fashion designer

"Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

Arthur Koestler, author and journalist

"He had been standing still: for an artist one of the more painful forms of death."

"Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

Irving Stone, American writer

"All great art is a form of complaint."

"Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

"All great art is a form of complaint."

John Cage, American composer

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the baby crawling, unaware of 'green'?"

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel guilty because they didn't really do it, they just say they DID something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the baby crawling, unaware of 'green'?"

Stan Brakhage, American film maker and writer

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel guilty because they didn't really do it, they just say they DID something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the baby crawling, unaware of 'green'?"

Virgina Woolf, writer

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel guilty because they didn't really do it, they just say they DID something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."

Steve Jobs, businessman and inventor

"Without creativity, there would be no progress...we would be forever repeating the same patterns."

"The greatest danger for most of is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that we aim too low and we reach it."

Edward de Bono, physician

"The greatest danger for most of is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that we aim too low and we reach it."

Michelangelo. Renaissance artist.

"The best way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw away the bad ones."

"The greatest danger for most of is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that we aim too low and we reach it."

"The best way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw away the bad ones."

Linnus Pauling, nobel prize winner

"I have not failed. I have merely found ten thousand ways that didn't work."

Thomas Edison, inventor

"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."

"I have not failed. I have merely found ten thousand ways that didn't work."

Brian Eno, composer and musician.

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

"I have not failed. I have merely found ten thousand ways that didn't work."

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

Duke Ellington, singer and song writer