Creativity Quotes

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything.

~ Eric Thomas

Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process, frustration is the process.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact.

~ Seth Godin

The journey of life, creates my art!!!

~ Michael Judkins

I am not covetous, but as ambitious as ever any of my sex was, is, or can be; which makes, that though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First; and although I have neither power, time, not occasion to conquer the world as Alexander and Caesar did; yet rather than not be mistress of one, since Fortune and Fates would give me none, I have made a world of my own; for which nobody, I hope, will blame me, since it is in everyone's power to do the like.

~ Margaret Cavendish

Life is a lonely business

~ Austin Kleon

For some strange reason I get some of my brightest ideas on the toilet seat, with my clothes on.

~ E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds

Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.

~ E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds

Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

It was creative, not financial success that thrilled Walt.

~ Leslie Le Mon

Life is a lonely bussiness

~ Austin Kleon

I’ve been firmly grounded in reality since I was a child, and I’m still waiting for it to impress me.

~ Jessica Conoley

We create intellectual property on a daily basis, but all of it is not worthy of attention

~ Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains.

~ Henri Bergson

The more at ease you are in the world, the more vibrant, creative and easygoing the world in you becomes.

~ Laurie Perez

Those who can create, will create. Those who cannot create, will compete.

~ Michael F. Bruyn

Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.

~ Osho

Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

~ Osho

Point your fire like a flower.

~ Annie Finch

Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity

~ Phillip Gary Smith

To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.

~ Charlotte Wood

According to Christ, the pathway to revelation, the heart of revival, and the fullness of the Kingdom of God is becoming child- like. Becoming dependent as children in our relationship with our heavenly Father forces us to lose our religious mindsets and protocol. Staying in a place of wonder and trust will keep us from becoming easily offended by the ways God chooses to manifest Himself in our lives.

~ Theresa Dedmon

Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly designed to live in collaboration with inspiration, and inspiration is still trying to find you—the same way it hunted down your ancestors.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Physicists have yet to find anything capable of exceeding our known speed of light. The Tao cannot be named, and so I say there is one thing that out-paces all things: we call it “thought.” I can fill a room a with light before I’m anywhere near the switch.

~ Laurie Perez

Bringing a novel to light - revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air - linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time - holding up a glass brimming with chilled, never-tasted liquid, then sipping from it with intoxicated focus - allowing lovers to make a perilous mess of things, fall apart and nakedly come back together again - looking through conjured windows deep into someone else’s snow-bound solitude, feeling utterly alone yet being all-connected: this is not writing. It’s world-creating.It’s raw, exposed dreaming. It’s humbling. At first too personal and intimate to share, it evolves like a child into a life of its own until I have no say in what comes next. It’s what I wake at 4am to say Yes to, the spinning possibility of a new story relentlessly commanding me to write it down so it can whirl in your experience.

~ Laurie Perez

You think an idea's bad but to others, it's a brilliant idea. Instead of thinking that an idea is bad, look at it differently and the final outcome of this bad idea will shock you. Rules should be followed. It is a tradition to know what can and can't be done. But innovation doesn't require the boundaries rules provide. It is when you stop following that you start having unexpected fun.

~ Tina Seelig

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When creativity is running rampant, it is imperative that we get carried away by it never knowing what we will create or whom we will inspire!

~ Ingrid Ancona

Done is better than none. You could have all the ideas in the world, but without execution, you will go nowhere.

~ Sue B. Zimmerman

Whomsoever embraces their creativity along with their individuality, embraces all possibility deep within.

~ H.l. Balcomb

I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself

~ Virginia Woolf

My greatest treasure is my thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Wondering is illusion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The ecstasy of love is a paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Neither compares nor competes. Be creative.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Explore the power of creativity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Explore the power of a beautiful wonder.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The writer’s life is a sacred wonder.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita