Top 200 Creativity Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”

— Anaïs Nin

52. “I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.”

— Michael Jackson

53. “Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.”

— Alex Grey

54. “One word after another. That’s the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it’s the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.”

— Neil Gaiman

55. “Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.”

— Julia Cameron

56. “Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.”

— Dewitt Jones

57. “Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.”

— Ram Dass

58. “I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.”

— Bob Ross

59. “You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.”

— Neil Gaiman

60. “Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso

61. “I do not seek. I find.”

— Pablo Picasso

62. “Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

— Steve Jobs

63. “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

64. “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”

— Robin S. Sharma

65. “Music is my religion.”

— Jimi Hendrix

66. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

— Nikola Tesla

67. “Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.”

— Nolan Bushnell

68. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

69. “I have this mental sickness called creativity.”

— Philippe Starck

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

— Stephen King

71. “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

— Nikola Tesla

72. “Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.”

— Earl Nightingale

73. “When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”

— Osho

74. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

75. “Write what you know.”

— Mark Twain

76. “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”

— David Ogilvy

77. “Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.”

— Bob Dylan

78. “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

— Walt Disney

79. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

— Richard P. Feynman

80. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

— Dr. Seuss

81. “The only truth is music.”

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Walt Disney

83. “Every artist was first an amateur.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

84. “The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite your passion.”

— Tony Robbins

85. “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

86. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

— Pablo Picasso

87. “We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”

— Paulo Coelho

88. “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

89. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

90. “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”

— Truman Capote

91. “Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.”

— Casey Neistat

92. “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”

— Steve Jobs

93. “Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”

— John Forbes Nash

94. “You can make anything by writing.”

— C. S. Lewis

95. “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

— Stephen King

96. “My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

— Pablo Picasso

97. “If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.”

— Alan Cohen

98. “The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”

— Charles Dickens

99. “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”

— Charles Dickens

100. “Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.”

— Neale Donald Walsch