Creative Quotes

This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

~ Derek Thompson

She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creations_ of the human intellect, of the human imagination! there is nothing man can do comes half so near the making of the Maker as the ordering of his way--except one thing: the highest creation of which man is capable, is to will the will of the Father. That _has_ in it an element of the purely creative, and then is man likest God. But simply to do what we ought, is an altogether higher, diviner, more potent, more creative thing, than to write the grandest poem, paint the most beautiful picture, carve the mightiest statue, build the most worshiping temple, dream out the most enchanting commotion of melody and harmony.

~ George Macdonald

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

~ Ryan Lilly

Garbage, in its worthless state, is the primary fuel for creativity.

~ Yusuf A. Leinge

There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.

~ Bakunin

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

~ Don Roff

The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits.

~ Shirley Corder

Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.

~ Fennel Hudson

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original.

~ Austin Kleon

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that.

~ Shannon L. Alder

My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.

~ Ryan Lilly

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

~ Chris Prentiss

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

~ Roger Von Oech

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

~ Julia Cameron

… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having been taught how to freely speculate, how to profoundly question, and how to playfully define. Spontaneity of speculation being synonymous with the philosophical-poetic, the philosophical-poetic with the rural philosopher-poet, and by roundelay the rural philosopher-poet thee with the spontaneity of speculation be. And by the way of the rural what may we say? A philosopher-poet of illimitable space we say. Iohannes Scottus Ériugena the metaphor of old salutes you; salutes your lyrical ear and your skilful strumming of the rippling harp. (Source: Hearing in the Write, Canto 19, Ivy-muffled)

~ Richard Mcsweeney

The knowledge of the worker is often called ‘skill’, for it requires manual dexterity and training. The knowledge of the manager is ‘academic’ as it can be taught in colleges and universities. However, the knowledge of the leader is ‘creative’ which can generally not be taught, and must come from within.

~ Awdhesh Singh

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

~ Shirley Jackson

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

~ Dan Harmon

Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility.

~ Liz Reinhardt

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

~ Criss Jami

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

~ Christian D. Larson

The best creates, the rest follows

~ Richard Lee Juiche

Writing is like talking to yourself, just in a way that makes it look like you're not crazy!

~ Mary Kate

Get in touch with your intuitive and creative powers, bring your desires to life in order to create a life of bliss.

~ Steven Redhead

Hold on to God, hold on to your visions and continue to develop them

~ Sunday Adelaja

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.

~ Patti Digh

All political movements are basically anti-creative — since a political movement is a form of war. “There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here,” that’s what they always say. “Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around.” “As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers.” Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

~ William S. Burroughs

The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

~ Lauren Groff

If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. They may appear to follow rules, but are also the most likely people to come up with a revolutionary new idea. They feel emotion intensly, but often seem to struggle to read facial expressions.

~ Adele Devine

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

~ Keri Smith

Don't be afraid to let yourself get bored because some of the most amazing things are created through boredom.

~ Rachel Hamilton

One thing I can say for sure is that she was very clever. Not in the way others expect you to be – intelligent, witty and concise, but in the way people should be: creative and consistent.

~ J.a. George

Art is anything you can get lost in. A place to escape and a place to find yourself.

~ Heloise Clough

Every worker should know that by working, he is releasing the nature of God in him. He is becoming creative just like God is creative.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

~ Elon Musk

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

~ David Ogilvy

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

~ David Ogilvy