Creativity Quotes

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

~ Magritte

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas.

~ Edward Debono

She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

~ Jeremy Camp

People like you must create. If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

~ Maria Semple

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.

~ Carla H. Krueger

The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.

~ Max Mckeown

Entrepreneurship isn't about luck, it's about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.

~ Onyi Anyado

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

~ Joseph Addison

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

~ Max Mckeown

Entrepreneur, take a bite out of Apple's innovation so in turn you can bear fruits of creativity.

~ Onyi Anyado

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

~ Max Mckeown

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

~ Max Mckeown

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

~ Max Mckeown

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

~ Max Mckeown

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

~ Claire Tomalin

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.The Language of Soul

~ Harold Klemp

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you.

~ Laura Ruby

We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold galaxies that breech the very edges of the universe itself. Such are the privileges we enjoy because of God’s unimaginable imagination.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

~ Tom Althouse

Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.

~ Max Mckeown

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

~ Max Mckeown

If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

~ Max Mckeown

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...

~ Max Mckeown

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

~ Max Mckeown

Walking’s a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.

~ Kenneth Eade

Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.

~ David Duchemin

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

~ Michelle C. Hillstrom

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

~ Criss Jami

Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

~ Richard Florida

Creativity can impact some sort of CHANGE in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure DIFFERENCES and work together for a common cause.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

~ Abraham H. Maslow

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn’t made TUSK? If I’d let it die as a podcast? I wouldn’t have three other movies I’m now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.

~ Kevin Smith

Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking – and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.

~ Steven Johnson

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

~ Onyi Anyado

Inspiration is everywhere.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.

~ Pablo Neruda

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

~ Paul Gibbons

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

~ Paul Gibbons