Top 100 Creativity Inspirational Quotes
#1. What good is having an imagination if you don't use it?
Miss Lore
#2. I am pushing you, even if it's off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they're not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative.
Nikki Sixx
#3. If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.
Hugh MacLeod
#5. Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.
Sonia Johnson
#6. Creativity starts' with a simple master piece
Jonel
#7. Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.
Bonnie Kelso
#8. Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world.
Renae A. Sauter
#10. Any great art work ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein
#11. Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious ... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney Company
#12. 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.
Edward De Bono
#13. Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.
Ray Bradbury
#15. You Are Already a Millionaire - Your Creativity Makes It So..
Ernie J Zelinski
#16. Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#17. So when it happens, don't just say Damn and forget it. Stop a minute and think it through. Somebody's going to change the face of the earth and it could be you.
'It Was Nothing
Really!', 1969
Theodore Sturgeon
#18. Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Life is filled with opportunities. Be courageous and fulfill your destiny. You were created for a purpose and once you realize your potential, you become unstoppable. Let no one get in the way of you pursuing your dreams.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#21. My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.
F.K. Preston
#23. Intuition is seeing the solution.....its emotion and intellect going together.
David Lynch
#24. Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
Gene Fowler
#25. When we tap into our creativity, we experience a sense of strength and well-being.
JuliaCameron
#26. I began to realize that the sterile world I had grown accustomed to had dulled my creativity and limited my vision
Robin S. Sharma
#27. Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic
Werner Erhard
#28. Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.
William Ash
#30. Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination -- health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul.
John Burroughs
#33. We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#34. No matter what you are currently able to do, creativity can make you capable of more.
John C. Maxwell
#35. The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.
Harry Crews
#36. Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats.
Ray Bradbury
#39. There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
#41. Creativity channels your energy into a powerful source which allows you to perform amazing tasks and achieve great things.
Miya Yamanouchi
#42. Being scared to fail inspires creativity; heartbreak inspires creativity; being hurt by others inspires creativity; being lost inspires creativity. Your masterpiece isn't something that you will have made in the colorful, it is understood in the darkness. Use the anxiety within and let it serve you.
Forrest Curran
#44. When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world
Gossy Ukanwoke
#47. Knowledge and wisdom are both the signs of hunger and thirst of creativity.
Euginia Herlihy
#48. You are infinite intelligence, creativity and Energy-Consciousness which gives you the power and wisdom to attain fulfillment and completion in life.
Ilchi Lee
#49. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
Steven Pressfield
#50. Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.
A.D. Posey
#51. And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker
#52. Limitation is the source of creativity.
Keterhadan adalah sumber kreativiti.
Muzaf Ahmad
#53. In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must not be interpreted as neither pride nor an uncaring attitude but a great respect for purposefulness
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.
Julia Cameron
#55. He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.
Suzanne Young
#56. Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence.
Todd Stocker
#57. Creativity is magic in the making.
A.D. Posey
#58. Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
John Godfrey Saxe
#59. Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.
Saransh Garg
#60. My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process.
Jaeda DeWalt
#63. Doing better is creativity,
doing faster is creativity,
doing smarter is creativity,
doing right is creativity.
doing Exclusive is creating identity.
Mohit Manke
#64. Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
T. S. Eliot
#65. The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.
Tony Robbins
#67. Creativity should be integral to everything that we do. Creativity should also be intrinsic to our personality, if excellence is what we seek.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#69. To flourish in any field of activity you need to gain a deep understanding of it.
Rod Judkins
#70. When you enter the world of laughter, you enter the world of fantasy and creativity.
Thomas Flindt
#71. We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?
Archibald Marwizi
#73. Creativity is the work of your hands or the work of your tongue so you have to be careful what you say because it would cost you big time.
Euginia Herlihy
#75. Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible.
Nadia Janice Brown
#76. Creation, in all its forms, is where I find beauty. If I could travel as far outward as I have inward, I would know with the utmost conviction that distance does not exist.
L.A. Rosenberg
#77. Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.
Tim Burton
#79. Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#80. Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
#81. Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#82. It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.
Simon Zingerman
#83. We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#84. I've been firmly grounded in reality since I was a child, and I'm still waiting for it to impress me.
Jessica Conoley
#85. Many of us learned to repress our creativity. We were told it was secondary to more important skills. The good news is that many of us have untapped gifts just waiting to be expressed. You owe it to yourself to uncover and express your gifts
Renae A. Sauter
#86. Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.
Kerstin Gier
#88. I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams and reality might finally meet.
L.M. Fields
#89. You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish ...
Kat Von D.
#90. Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes.
Deborah Sandella
#91. I am no longer scared to close my eyes and to imagine.
Vijay Bagha
#92. Measure your life not by its longevity but by the differences you have made with your creativity and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
Paul Valery
#94. Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison
#95. People ask me how to start writing. I tell them that 'Creating Creates Creativity'. Put your notes and outline aside. Start with one anecdote or conversation, and that will lead to another and another. It's the steps, the path, not the final destination that drives the process or writing.
Dick Sederquist
#96. You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks, and revising.
Fran Sorin
#97. There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas.
Steve Jobs
#99. An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew
Michael Bassey Johnson
#100. Creativity comes from curious, intuitive, persistent action.
Debasish Mridha
