Creativity Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude…

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self imposed limitations.

Absurdity and anti absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

An idea is like a virus. Resilient.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible; he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.