44 Best Quotes About Creativity To Become A Creative Person

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Get here the list of some best inspirational quotes about creativity that will motivate you to become a creative person.

Best Quotes About Creativity

1. “Creativity takes courage.” ― Henri Matisse

2. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso

3. “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” ― Albert Einstein

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4. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath

5. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” ― Rumi

6. “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” ― C.E.M. Joad

7. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” ― Henry Thomas Buckle

8. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ― Albert Einstein

9. “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.” ― Osho

10. “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun” ― Pablo Picasso

11. “Doors are for people with no imagination.” ― Derek Landy

12. “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time.” ― Lady Gaga

13. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

14. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ― Pablo Picasso

15. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou

Famous Creativity Quotes

16. “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.” ― Mikhail Bakunin

17. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ― Scott Adams

18. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” ― Erich Fromm

19. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” ― Albert Einstein

20. “The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.” ― Ernest Becker

21. “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity” ― T.S. Eliot

22. “Chance favors the prepared mind.” ― Louis Pasteur

23. “The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.” ― Ernest Hemingway

24. “Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.” ― Criss Jami

25. “Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

26. “That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.” ― Ray Bradbury

27. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” ― Joseph Chilton Pearce

28. “Creativity is as important as literacy” ― Ken Robinson

29. “Creativity is an act of defiance.” ― Twyla Tharp

30. “Create with the heart; build with the mind.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy

Inspirational Creativity Quotes

31. “If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.” ― Pablo Picasso

32. “Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.” ― Deepak Chopra

33. “Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” ― Arthur Koestler

34. “Creative power is mightier than its possessor.” ― C.G. Jung

35. “Creativity is a continual surprise.” ― Ray Bradbury

36. “Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

37. “The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.” ― Robert Greene

38. “Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” ― Sir Ken Robinson

39. “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” ― Rita Mae Brown

40. “We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.” ― Serina Hartwell

41. “Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.” ― Keri Smith

42. “Supposedly there’s an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I’ve seen it with my own eyes.” ― Deb Caletti

43. “You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” ― Mario Vargas Llosa

44. “A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows” ― Mati Klarwein