Top 200 Creative Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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2. “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.”

— Roald Dahl

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3. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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4. “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

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5. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

6. “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”

— Salvador Dalí

Also featured in: Art Quotes, Genius Quotes

7. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Moving On Quotes

8. “Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”

— Seneca

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9. “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory, which states that this has already happened.”

— Douglas Adams

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10. “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”

— Neil Gaiman

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11. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

— Carl Sagan

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12. “Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Storytelling Quotes, Artist Quotes, Honesty Quotes

13. “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

— Frida Kahlo

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14. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

— Khalil Gibran

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15. “Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

— Oscar Wilde

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16. “We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Not Giving Up Quotes, Artist Quotes, Art Quotes

17. “Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.”

— Carl Sagan

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18. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

— Douglas Adams

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Thought Provoking Quotes

19. “Music is a safe kind of high.”

— Jimi Hendrix

Also featured in: Music Quotes

20. “There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”

— Edward De Bono

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21. “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”

— Frida Kahlo

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Strong Women Quotes, Artist Quotes, Individuality Quotes

22. “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Imagination Quotes

23. “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Greatness Quotes, Art Quotes

24. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Quotes About Trying

25. “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Hard Hitting Quotes, Crazy Quotes

26. “If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Competition Quotes, Innovation Quotes

27. “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

28. “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”

— Coco Chanel

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Self-Worth Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Choices Quotes

29. “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”

— Edwin H. Land

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Quotes About Ideas

30. “Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Quality Quotes

31. “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Artist Quotes, Art Quotes

32. “In the end, we’ll all become stories.”

— Margaret Atwood

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

33. “I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Dream Big Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

34. “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Clever Quotes, Character Quotes

35. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Experience Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Travel Quotes

36. “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Book Quotes, Travel Quotes

37. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Being Yourself Quotes

38. “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Quotes About Writing

39. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

— Erich Fromm

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

40. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

41. “Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Peace Quotes, Imagination Quotes

42. “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Art Quotes, Painting Quotes

43. “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

— Salvador Dalí

Also featured in: Artist Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Witty Quotes

44. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Morality Quotes

45. “I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Empowering Quotes

46. “From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Epic Quotes

47. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank

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48. “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

— Joseph Campbell

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49. “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Challenges Quotes

50. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

— Stephen King

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