Top 200 Creative Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

— John Lennon

52. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

— Ansel Adams

53. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”

— Rumi

54. “Ideas are bulletproof.”

— Alan Moore

55. “Above all shadows rides the sun.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

56. “Music can change the world because it can change people.”

— Bono

57. “Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

58. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

59. “Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

— Walt Disney

60. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

— Scott Adams

61. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

62. “Art is the proper task of life. ”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

63. “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”

— Vincent van Gogh

64. “The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!”

— Rhonda Byrne

65. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

— Charles Dickens

66. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”

— J.K. Rowling

67. “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

— Franz Kafka

68. “There will be an answer. Let it be.”

— Paul McCartney

69. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

— Dr. Seuss

70. “Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”

— Osho

71. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

— John Muir

72. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

— Pablo Picasso

73. “I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”

— Vincent van Gogh

74. “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

75. “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”

— William Shakespeare

76. “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

77. “The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

78. “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

— Mark Twain

79. “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

— William Shakespeare

80. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

— Maya Angelou

81. “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

— Pablo Picasso

82. “Where’s your will to be weird?”

— Jim Morrison

83. “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”

— J.K. Rowling

84. “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”

— Albert Camus

85. “In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”

— Coco Chanel

86. “I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.”

— Ralph Lauren

87. “If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.”

— Steven Wright

88. “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

— Stephen Chbosky

89. “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”

— Virginia Woolf

90. “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.”

— Walt Disney

91. “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

— Charlie Chaplin

92. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

93. “Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night.”

— Rumi

94. “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t know where it’s going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.”

— Michael Scott

95. “Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.”

— Ray Bradbury

96. “Forever is composed of nows.”

— Emily Dickinson

97. “You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

— Jodi Picoult

98. “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”

— Walt Disney

99. “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”

— Chili Davis

100. “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”

— Neil Gaiman