Creativity Quotes

Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control.

~ Auliq Ice

Obsession is like a pretty, little, picket fence that offers itself up as a thin line--a separation between ingenuity and insanity.

~ S. D. Lawendowski

A scattered mind will produce scattered results.

~ Dana Gore

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think.

~ Auliq Ice

Life is an adventure I am enjoying creating.

~ Jay Woodman

Above and beyond all else it must be borne in mind that hatred tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on the negative aspects of his environment. The urgent needs of the personality for creative expression are starved to death. A man's horizon may become so completely dominated by the intense character of his hatred that there remains no creative residue in his mind and spirit to give to great ideas, to great concepts.

~ Howard Thurman

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its true potential - the imagination.

~ Lawrence Durrell

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Positive energy is unleashed when leaders give themselves permission to connect and express themselves from the core of who they are. When leaders practice authenticity, creativity, engagement, confidence, and a sense of inner resourcefulness emerge.

~ Henna Inam

Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be understood as nothing less or more than what they are, an expression of our deepest human nature. By recognizing their traits in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able both to contain them and to put them to good use. This is, no doubt, the highest form of genius.

~ Neel Burton

Creativity expands the mind, stretches it beyond ordinary human comprehension, resulting in the mind being elastic and capable of transcending and discerning complex ideas.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired.

~ Henna Inam

It isn't enough to pick a path—you must go down it. By doing so, you see things you couldn't possibly see when you started out; you may not like what you see, some of it may be confusing, but at least you will have, as we like to say, explored the neighborhood. The key point here is that even if you decide you're in the wrong place, there is still time to head toward the right place.

~ Ed Catmull

To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts.

~ Emilyann Girdner

Give today the gifts of creativity and productivity, and it would reward you with a better tomorrow.

~ Hafiz

We want to bring light into media, we always keep that into mind... the message of love and goodness that still exists in the world...

~ Isabel Ruiz Lucero

A large majority of our respondents were inspired by a tension in their domain that became obvious when looked at from the perspective of another domain. Even though they do not think of themselves as interdisciplinary, their best work bridges realms of ideas. Their histories tend to cast doubt on the wisdom of overspecialization, where bright young people are trained to become exclusive experts in one field and shun breadth like the plague.

~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Dreams are fuel for creation.

~ Joseph Hunt

When you get right down to it, lots of things that look fancy are easy to do, and lots of things that seem easy are hard, even if you're very creative and a good artist.

~ Nancy Freund

To flourish in any field of activity you need to gain a deep understanding of it.

~ Rod Judkins

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

Creativity is at the root of excitement.

~ Lawren Leo

The epiphany in this thought is that we simply cannot and do not create in isolation. As I paint my blank canvas others leave their mark on my masterpiece. Many have added colors and textures I knew not existed, greatly improving my creation..and yet...and yet... There are those who have punctured the fine leather and scraped at the rainbows of my mind ... creating stormy patches where there were once colors beaming from the page.

~ Bella Vespira

IThe epiphany in this thought is that we simply cannot and do not create in isolation. As I paint my blank canvas others leave their mark on my masterpiece. Many have added colors and textures I knew not existed, greatly improving my creation..and yet...and yet... There are those who have punctured the fine leather and scraped at the rainbows of my mind ... creating stormy patches where there were once colors beaming from the page.

~ Bella Vespira

Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision.

~ Angela Lynne Craig

Freedom gives room for creativity.

~ Paul Bamikole

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

As a soul, you have the freedom – and earned responsibility – to transpose your personal process of evolution, to manifest your greatest talents and vision, into the work that matters to you most as a means to personal redemption.

~ Darrell Calkins

It’s frustration which makes creativity possible.

~ Hanif Kureishi

There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

~ Sergio Troncoso

Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

~ Sergio Troncoso

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

~ Maya Angelou

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you’re setting free is yourself.

~ Darrell Calkins

The future is a direction, not a destination.

~ Edwin Catmull

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

~ Fennel Hudson

If you don’t practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment.

~ Darrell Calkins

To the inexperienced and naive, creativity often looks like magic. But in truth creativity is rooted in the fertile grounds of knowledge and many hours of hard work and thinking.

~ Jurgen Appelo

I make NO apologies for my creativity.

~ Jason Medina

Creativity never disappoints.

~ Mary-Ellen Peters