Top 200 Creativity Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Scott Adams

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2. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

— Albert Einstein

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3. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath

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4. “Creativity is just connecting things.”

— Steve Jobs

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5. “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

— Albert Einstein

6. “You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.”

— Bill Watterson

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Erich Fromm

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9. “Everything begins with an idea.”

— Earl Nightingale

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10. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

— Ray Bradbury

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11. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”

— Brené Brown

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12. “Creativity takes courage. ”

— Henri Matisse

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

— Osho

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14. “Failure is success in progress.”

— Albert Einstein

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15. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

— Pablo Picasso

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16. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath

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17. “What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.”

— Deepak Chopra

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18. “Creativity is an act of defiance.”

— Twyla Tharp

19. “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”

— Brené Brown

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20. “The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.”

— Michael Jackson

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21. “Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

— Neil Gaiman

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22. “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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23. “The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”

— Pablo Picasso

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24. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

— Dr. Seuss

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25. “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”

— Edward De Bono

26. “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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27. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

— Walt Disney

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28. “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

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29. “This world is but a canvas for our imagination.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Ayn Rand

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31. “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ”

— Joss Whedon

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32. “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

— Toni Morrison

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33. “You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.”

— Lady Gaga

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34. “Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great.”

— Abdul Kalam

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35. “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

— Robert Frost

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36. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

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37. “If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there’s some way to do it.”

— Walt Disney

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38. “Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.”

— C.G. Jung

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39. “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ”

— C.G. Jung

40. “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

— Dr. Seuss

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41. “It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.”

— Ellis Paul Torrance

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42. “There is no limit to your creative power.”

— Neville Goddard

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43. “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

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44. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”

— Ken Robinson

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45. “Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

— Ray Bradbury

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46. “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”

— Mary Oliver

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47. “You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.”

— Neil Gaiman

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48. “Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.”

— Dorothy Parker

49. “Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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50. “The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

— Steven Pressfield

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