Creativity Quotes

Begin to think.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

~ Harold Bloom

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

~ Virginia Woolf

There are two types of limitations: those others place on us, and those we place on ourselves. One is more subtle. Both are equally dangerous.

~ Andrena Sawyer

Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood.

~ Girish Kohli

Creativity is magic in the making.

~ A.d. Posey

Creativity is divine.

~ A.d. Posey

Imagination takes us to the invisible world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be creative, be innovative, consume what everyone consumes and make it fresh!

~ Kevin Focke

A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

~ Robin Hobb

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it. I choose to block out all the external (and internal) noise and distractions, and to come home again and again to creativity. Because without that source of wonder, I know that I am doomed. Without it, I will forever wander the world in a state of bottomless dissatisfaction—nothing but a howling ghost, trapped in a body made of slowly deteriorating meat

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

~ Immanuel Kant

Creativity is, in many respects, a response.

~ Matthew Syed

It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

There’s plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home, but understand this: Creativity and I are the only ones who will be making any decisions along the way. I recognize and respect that you are part of this family, and so I will never exclude you from our activities, but still—your suggestions will never be followed. You’re allowed to have a seat, and you’re allowed to have a voice, but you are not allowed to have a vote.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Always the following wind of historyOf others' wisdom makes a buoyant airTill we come suddenly on pockets where Is nothing loud but us; where voices seemAbrupt, untrained, competing with no lieOur fathers shouted once.

~ W.h. Auden

Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.

~ Stuart Wilde

If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing.

~ Matthew Donnelly

And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like? I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?

~ Patti Digh

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

~ Jane Yolen

Our readers are curious, creative, and compassionate fairy punks who are citizens of the world.

~ Quail Bell Magazine

Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Instead of asking why they left,now I ask,what beauty will I createin the space the no longeroccupy?

~ Rudy Francisco

It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don’t have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable: It’s a myth and a trap and a hamster wheel that will run you to death. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: “So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun... The most evil trick about perfectionism, though, is that it disguises itself as a virtue.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

~ Edgar Degas

And when things get tough, this is what you should do.Make good art.

~ Neil Gaiman

Don’t let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.

~ Morr Meroz

God plants the talent and it grows, sustained by a spirit-given strength to endure, even in the midst of darkness. It thrives in the valleys of life and ignores the peaks. It blooms like a flower when cradled by the warmth of the sun. It remains in a hidden stairwell in a concentration camp. It grows, fed in secret, in the heart of every artist.

~ Kristy Cambron

David Bowie was my creative northstar, a muse, an inspiration to me from the age of 8. He was a special soul on a mission, and the mission is now complete. I know he is truly home now among the stars.

~ Eileen Anglin

If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.

~ James Altucher

Innovation is the heart of humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can either worry or wonder. The best choice is to wonder.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A mistake is the most beautiful thing in the world.It is the only way you can get to some place you’venever been before. I try to make as many as I can.Making a mistake is the only way that you cangrow.

~ E.w. Wainwright

A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.

~ Garry Fitchett